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The historic sale that puts this underrated Caribbean artist alongside Henry Moore Ronald Moody, the great 20th century sculptor, is finally getting the attention he deserves at auction 2 March 2021 • 7:00am Man with Hands Crossed Listening to the Band, by Ronald Moody (1900-1984), estimate £2,000-3,000, at Christie's  Credit: Christie's  At approximately 4pm this afternoon, a historic moment is on the cards at a sale of Modern British Art at Christie’s. Towards the end of the sale, standing in the shadow of sculptures by Henry Moore, and paintings by LS Lowry and Winston Churchill, is...

Guy Brett mailing Signals Newsbulletin in London, 1964. Photo: © Clay Perry/England & Co. AT A 2008 TATE MUSEUM TALK on Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn, Guy Brett recalled a studio visit during which Dittborn kept fussing with unwieldy canvases, growing frustrated. “Fucking rigidity,” Dittborn had exclaimed, bashing the canvases to the wall. This aversion to the static, a trait endemic to the artists he championed, is just as applicable to Brett himself. The critic and curator had an abhorrence for the rigid, contempt for anything that refused to bend to the shape of the world. He was...

As is true of many others long before me, I first encountered David Medalla (1942–2020) through the pages of the Signals newsbulletin (1964–66), of which he was editor. The context was a graduate seminar on the work of Lygia Clark, and one of Medalla’s folded duo-chrome broadsheets taught us more than any available book. This particular issue, devoted to Clark, combined images representing 15 years of her work with the first English translations of both her statements and writings by Mário Pedrosa, a poem by Walmir Ayala, and an excerpt from Gaston Bachelard’s ‘L’Intuition de l�...

Guy Brett (right) in 1966 with the artist Takis © Clay Perry, England & Co gallery, London The UK curator and writer Guy Brett, who broadened the art historical canon by producing important exhibitions and publications on key Latin American and Asian artists, has died aged 78. Born in Richmond, Yorkshire, 1942, Brett began his career as a critic at the Times where he worked from 1964 to 1975. From 1981 to 1983 he was also the visual arts editor at the London weekly magazine City Limits. His exhibition Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists, organised at the ...