Bob Thompson’s inspired ad-libbing on the Old Masters

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Apollo Magazine Feature on Bob Thompson: Measure of My Song

October 2025

Ben Street from Apollo Magazine discusses Bob Thompson’s ‘riffing’ on the Old Masters he saw in European museums.

In his hands, the traditions of art become a means of thinking through how bodies coexist in shared spaces, and what happens when they can’t, or won’t. ‘In a certain way,’ he once said, ‘I am trying to show what’s happening, what’s going on […] in my own private way.’ 

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Image Courtesy of New Jersey State Museum Collection; Museum Purchase, FA1984.47 and Maximillian William © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Photo: Ben Westoby / Fine Art Documentation

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