Laura Gascoigne

Figurative painting is back – but how good is any of it?

From wit and whimsy to the weak and shouty: Whitechapel Gallery’s Radical Figures reviewed

Sanya Kantarovsky’s ‘Feeder’ (2016). © Sanya Kantarovsky; Courtesy of the artist, Modern Art, London, and Luhring Augustine, New York
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  • Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium

    Whitechapel Gallery, until 30 August

  • Another’s Tongue

    White Cube, via its site, until 16 August

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