Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.
I'm Robert Bound.
On today's show, we're heading to two fantastic London exhibitions by two very different American artists.
First, we'll hear from the curator of a show of Noah Davis at the Barbican,
a glorious, sweeping exhibition that serves as a worthy tribute to the late great painter.
Then we'll hear from the high spirited, soon to be octogenarian Joseph Kossuth,
whose show at the Sprut Magers Gallery features work from his six decades spent as a pioneer of conceptual
and installation art.
The American painter Noah Davis is beloved in the art world.
Both are his beautiful,
arresting figurative paintings
and bringing art to LA's Arlington park neighbourhood in the form of his trailblazing culture hub,
the Underground Museum.
A new exhibition at the Barbican brings together more than 60 of his works.
Gorgeous, complex explorations of everyday life that point to the ethereal.
It's a wonderful exhibition, uplifting and bittersweet,
likely to leave visitors with the ache of a life cut short and great talent curtailed.
Davis died in 2015 at the age of 32 from a rare form of cancer.
Many of these works on display at the Barbican were painted by Davies.
In his early 20s.