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Alec Kronacker

Bloomberg New Contemporaries Opens on Wednesday, 23rd November.

Last year the work that had me swooning and coming over all faint was Alec Kronacker’s work. Love this one pictured and Not Ironing and I think my favourite is Man Pacing Apartment, all 2011. It feels like a nostalgia that’s not personal, like a wished for nostalgia. It makes me feel a little yearning for the new fresh feeling of the 1950s, sitcoms and telephones, clunky analogue and Ektachrome colour. Really want one of these paintings.

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Artist-Talks

‘The best source of information about an artist is the artist.’ – John Baldessari, 1975

My new blog Artist-Talks is the first test in a new project I am looking to realise. This first go, works on a minimum viable product basis, within a strategy of make-test-learn where I see what I can achieve without any cost in digital media. The blog features collected video and audio from some of our most celebrated artists currently showing in our most popular institutions and museums.

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What's Next?

100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society: Inside Public Collections

Edited by Lucy Byatt and Charlotte Troy

What’s Next? 100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society: Inside Public Collections features the extensive output of these interventions alongside vital conversations about curating, patronage and the cultural identity of Museums and the significance of collections on the artist and creative practitioner. The book also includes its own collection of works on paper from some of the UKs most important and emerging artists, all of whom have been supported by the Contemporary Art Society. The Contemporary Art Society has worked as a catalyst for the visual arts in the UK, continuing to develop and support audiences, artists, curators, collectors and collections alike. Timely in its nature and explorative in its method, this book is essential for anyone interested in public art collections today and curious about their future.