Blog: The 405

Today marked the opening day for the Saatchi Gallery's third exhibition in its gorgeous new gallery on Duke of York Square. In the autumn, the Saatchi hosted new art from China, and the spring saw an incredible genre-defying exhibition of new art from the Middle East. For the gallery's blockbuster summer show, Sir Charles turned his eyes back towards the west. "Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture" is an incredible, diverse, and colourful testament to contemporary art without radical politics. The artists involved in the exhibition all seem to respond to the very same vein of abstraction [...]