The Easel

Jeffrey Deitch on Why Figurative Art Rules the Zeitgeist, and His New Calling as a Pop-Up Impresario

You just know that something is hot when it is the focus of a collaboration between Gagosian Gallery and Jeffrey Dietch. Figurative art is that new “hot”. Notwithstanding a slightly breathless tone, this interview with Dietch nicely profiles the argument about figuration, as well as his view that we are all suffering from abstraction fatigue. ”Figurative art is like the novel—it’s reinvented by every generation” More images are here.