Do you like skeletons, images of corpses and death dinner parties? Of course you do, and for your slightly surreal delectation we just attended the exhibit ‘Wes Lang: the Black Paintings’ which is now on until 9 March at The Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. And as TKO readers are aware we love free. 

Newport Street is owned and curated by Damien Hirst, who is known for his explorations of mortality, death and the concentration concepts between the two. We have explored his exhibits at Newport at several points in the past, and this frankly bonkers exhibit fits well into his interest base. Lang takes from his inspiration Francis Bacon, James Ensor, and although the website won’t confess to this, probably B-list American horror films meets zombie flicks mixed with that great scene from ‘Carrie’ where all hell breaks loose at the prom.

Central to Lang’s work is his interest in helping people live meaningful lives and understand the concept of the temporality of our existence. In light of what is going on in our increasingly chaotic 2025 lives, this might be a strange solace.