Alberto Mieglo - best known for his wipe-clean illustration work which is at once surgically detailed and brimming with character - in his ‘Pinkman’ guise, proving that he animates just as well.

For me, it felt as if the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 at the Photographers Gallery was staged dispassionately and unintuitively, with the effect that Sophie Ristelhueber’s broody prizewinning politicised works seemed neutered at first. On the second circuit of the gallery their impact is clear - her mid-eastern pictures use judiciously overt digital manipulation and are, to a casual, ignorant visitor like me, attractive through the editorial flair they display.

However, my personal show highlight was the wryly selected downbeat-and-at-heel shopfront photographs by ‘chronicler of the overlooked’, Zoe Leonard.

Free and definitely demands a visit before the exhibition ends on 18th April.

May Picture, etching 734x272 mm, 1949, Ernst Fuchs

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Penny Davenport

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‘That moment’, oil on canvas, Adrian Ghenie

Just like the work of Michaël Borremans that I discovered a few weeks ago, I find Adrian Ghenie’s scenes strangely erotic and always able to generate a conflicting range of emotions. Although the tableaux imply little movement, to me they all seem to foreshadow or follow a dramatic event.

Literature vs traffic, installation, Luzinterruptus

The Spanish art collective’s February 17th public installation saw them distribute 2000 books with lights interleaved amongst the pages across the roads and sidewalks of Water St, New York in the gentrified Dumbo district. The books were scattered in such a way that pedestrians could navigate their path through them undisturbed or interact with the books if they wished.

I’d have loved to leave work on the 17th and find myself an island in a starfield of story fragments.

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Thinking Cap, Corey Corcoran

Prolific paperback novel illustrator Bob Abbett’s gorgeous illustrations for Irving Wallace’s 1964 unintentionally pulp PolitComic “The Man” are the perfect visual accompaniment to a premise that, until relatively recently, might have seemed most appropriate between the covers of quick-fix literature:

In the bizarre event - possible even in fiction only through the confluence of extreme political circumstances and reactionary affirmative action - a black man should become U.S President, would the challenges of racism, intrigue and public backlash from minority communities and the mainstream alike prove too much to overcome?

By all accounts, the book is hardly crammed with blade-sharp insight, but it doesn’t stop me from desperately wanting a copy.

Apple, by Yehrin Tong

It seems like I’m in the mood for geometrically torturous illustrations, tessellations and typography at the moment, so here’s another….

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Experimental typography by Ashleigh Barron inspired by ‘Digital’, the last song ever performed live by Joy Division before the suicide of the band’s singer Ian Curtis.