Seems the hipsters were out in force in NYC for the latest Neckface show. I think his paintings have got a lot better - technically - I stil find a lot of 'em childish crap. But he's just trying too hard to be 'controversial', which i'm sure goes down a treat with the braying lower eastsider hypebeasts and their oh-so-ironic lives (paid for by mommy and daddy).

Hanging puppets? Okay, fine. But the background photographs of dead people bothers me. It's not that they turn my stomach - because they don't - I just find it disrespectful to people and their families who have suffered. At least one of the pics for example is an eathquake victim in South America.

Why not show the war dead? Maybe some of the 30,000 Iraqis killed by the fabulous 'Liberation forces'? Because he's all surface. Go beyond that and there's nothing. No message, no "edgyness". His work is as dead as those people. Oh and showing any of the above would also be disrespectful but it might at least be delivering some sort of expression or statement.

That's Neckface...spelt "C.....U....N....