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Feature | Peter Blake, ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Artist, Still Going in and out of Style

Farah Nayeri talks about Sir Peter Blake’s his new exhibition, Portraits and People, at Waddington Custot Galleries. Blake produced about half of the 78 works in the show this year and stated ‘I gave myself carte blanche to be in my late period, and be a slightly eccentric old man’.

Blake’s eccentricities have been on display his entire career and in Portraits and People he returns to some of his favorite subjects: professional wrestlers, circus performers, people outside of the norm - and Elvis Presley. The gallery’s central space is filled with oil paintings and watercolours derived from found images. His series of tattooed figures is based on 19th century French prisoner photographers, another features imaginary entertainers. 

Blake received a knighthood in 2002 and is part of a generation of British artists in their 70s and 80s who are still producing and showing works. Blake’s prices have lagged behind his contemporaries, such as David Hockney and Blake has said he found that ‘quite often the work I was doing at any one time wasn’t fashionable at that time’.

‘Blake is very much an individualist’ said Mr Gayford, the critic, ‘he seems to flow out of a romantic preoccupation with slightly marginal aspects of British life. There’s no one, really, who’s taken that path’.

Via The New York Times 

Feature |   Dancing petals and a Banksy spectacular: readers' favourite art shows of 2015

Guardian readers reported on some of their favourite exhibitions of 2015:

- A Victorian Obsession, Leighton House, London: ‘ Amazing paintings shown in an atmospheric setting. This exhibition was so wonderful that I travelled from the Midlands to see it.’ Susan Lupton

- Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy, London: ‘Such a powerful, moving experience, with wonderful concepts beautifully realised. It was a creative and effective indictment of a state’s abuse of the individual and the community. This is contemporary art at its very, very best, as far as I am concerned.’ Kyria Conner

Sun Ra, Nottingham Contemporary: ‘His prodigious output of unique music and vision, exemplified by the 70 or so album illustrations and the wondrous 1970s film, Space Is the Place, a psychedelic blaxploitation epic. It sits well in the thoughtfully curatedAlien Encounters show. I loved the layout of the exhibits and the interactive nature of the gallery. Top marks’. Lee Best

Anish Kapoor, Versailles: ‘Bold, beautiful, discombobulating pieces that both spoke to and jarred with the classic Versailles gardens.’ Keith Bacha

See the complete list via The Guardian

News | French Poet and Art Critic Alain Jouffroy Dead at 87

The French surrealist poet and art critic Alain Jouffroy died on Sunday at the age of 87.

Born in Paris in 1928, Jouffroy grew up to become an important figure in French intellectual circles. He was an admirer of the Belgian poet and painter Henri Michaux and a close friend of fellow writer and compatriot Louis Aragon.

As an art critic Jouffroy published some 120 works including monographs and essays on artists such as Joan Miró, Max Ernst, and Franco Gentilini.

Via Artnet