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Exhibitions

Painting Now doesn't represent painting now. Thank goodness

The exhibition at Tate Britain is dull with obviousness — for some real painting go for The Elemental North at Messum's

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists

Tate Britain, until 9 February

Euan Uglow Drawings

Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1, until 1 February

The Elemental North

Messum’s, 8 Cork Street, W1, until 15 February

The death of painting has been so often foretold — almost as frequently as its renaissance — that any such prediction today is nothing short of foolhardy. Of course, painting is alive and well and living in London, but you wouldn’t know that from the current exhibition of five artists at Tate Millbank.

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