Videos
Banksy ‘Gas Mask Boy’ | London | Spring 2021
Dark humour, satire and political commentary are more present than ever in this one-off work by the anonymous street artist, painter and social activist Banksy. Displaying trademark conceptual paradoxes, the respirator mask of a graffiti artist reflects an ethereal vision of a blooming field, adding an explosion of colour to an otherwise grittily monochrome urban scene.
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ANDY WARHOL 'Four Marilyns', 1962
Though Andy and Marilyn never met, he immortalized her with the creation of his most important portr…
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JEFF KOONS 'Buster Keaton', 1988
Hinting at self-portraiture, 'Buster Keaton' is a telling portrait of Koons as a young artist, one w…
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN 'Woman with Peanuts', 1962
Roy Lichtenstein's fascination with the various motifs used in advertising stemmed from the nature o…
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DAVID HAMMONS 'Untitled', 2000
From his racially charged work of the 1970s up until his modern work, David Hammons has refused to s…
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MARK ROTHKO 'Untitled (Black on Gray)', 1969-70
"It's through this almost philosophical reduction in terms of his possibilities that he's able to op…
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ANDY WARHOL 'Nine Gold Marilyns (Reversal Series)', 1980
Warhol re-imagines Marilyn Monroe’s iconic beauty in a warm, almost metallic, golden hue, a transiti…
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GILBERT & GEORGE 'Tag Black', 2004
Lou Proud, Phillips head of Photographs in London presents 'Tag Black', 2004 by Gilbert & George, a …
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EDWARD STEICHEN 'Richard Strauss, New York', 1904
Lou Proud, head of Photographs in London, introduces Edward Steichen's portrait of the composer Rich…
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Gerhard Richter 'Weiß (White)', 1988
"In the case of the abstractions, I get vague notions of pictures that are just asking to be painted…
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Fischli & Weiss 'Floß', 1982-83
"It was about the world of garages and cars and workshops, and on the other hand the farm; or to be …
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Yan Pei-Ming 'Golden Buddha', 2005 and 'Double (Artist's Father)', 2007
"I don’t want my paintings to speak in Chinese. My work is not 'made in China' and I don’t want it t…
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PADDLES ON! : In the Studio with Mark Tribe
"The sources of these images are computer games and they're very much, I think, about digital cultur…
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PADDLES ON! : In the Studio with Jamie Zigelbaum
"The pixel itself is just an interesting thing in the world."
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PADDLES ON! : In the Studio with Kate Steciw
"All art is digital art now in one form or another, whether it's through its consumption or its prod…
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PADDLES ON! : In the Studio with Rafaël Rozendaal
"I'm very interested in the formal aspects of the web as a medium because it's unlike anything that …
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Humidity, 1982
While Warhol and Basquiat's collaborations would come after the creation of Humidity, 1982, becomes …
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ANDY WARHOL Nine Jackies, 1964
The events that transpired on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, when John F. Kennedy was assasinated, pre…
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GERHARD RICHTER Kegel (Cone), 1985
Oscillating between figurative, constructive and abstract designations, Richter returns to and build…