I wasn’t expecting that so many of my of dispatches on my trip to Europe would be centered around museum exhibitions, but it is the season when new shows are opening and the energy of summer begins to shift to the institutional world. At Tate Britain, something long overdue is being presented: the first museum show of British painter, Hurvin Anderson, one of the great landscape and interiors painters of his generation. The work is an exploration in memory, of place, of diaspora, of blending and overlapping cultures. Anderson’s parents moved from Jamaica to Birmingham in the 1960s, and Anderson’s work reflects a dream of colliding generational pathways. Ideas and place overlap, identity evolves and merges with new locations and the ideas of home. There are little details in each work that feel like transcendence and finding the traditions of British landscape painting while simultaneously bringing his heritage into the conversation. A long-awaited, much needed, understanding of a truly great artist. —Evan Pricco
