Philip Larratt-Smith
(Curator, The Easton Foundation — New York / International)
A writer and curator based in New York, he has organized exhibitions on Bourgeois, Cy Twombly, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Joan Mitchell, and Bruce Nauman. His 2023 show The God That Failed at Hauser & Wirth Zurich paired Bourgeois, Newman, and Rothko around thematic and formal links — exploring how all three pivoted in their work from biomorphic figuration to abstraction and geometry, and how pictorial space in Newman and Rothko's paintings echoed the spatial conditions of Bourgeois's sculpture. This is a man who reads paintings the way a musician reads a score — for structure, not for biography. He is mid-tier in institutional profile but first-tier in critical intelligence. A painting-focused invitation from a serious emerging space would appeal to his restlessness. Strong candidate.