PAINTING NOW

John Currin's painting of a rustic woman with a straw hat and satchel full of flowers; Marlene Dumas' portrait of a sallow nineteenth-century gentleman; Eberhard Havekost's contemporary female torso in tank top and jeans; Sara van der Heide's Madonna in hijab; and Wilhelm Sasnal's lonely astronaut tinkering with a moon rover-these are the sorts of images you will find in this new survey of international contemporary figurative painting. Featuring work by Glenn Brown, George Condo, Peter Doig, Dumas, Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Alex Katz, Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Neo Rauch, Jenny Saville, Luc Tuymans and many others, Painting Now! spans several generations to present a broad overview of contemporary painting by highlighting the most popular theme in Western art: the human figure. With a text and at least one image per artist, this survey gathers a compelling selection of work from 2000 until today.