Malcolm Morley, "Rules of Engagement"

In one of those serendipitous collisions of art and current events, Morley's recent paintings of fighter pilots and aircraft (favored motifs for more than a decade, and inspired by Morley's London boyhood as he watched the Blitz unfold overhead) arrive hot on the heels on the bombing of Libya. The 12 new canvases here depicting scenes of aerial combat are rendered in the Turner Prize winner's (he received the inaugural honor in 1984) typically bold paint-handling—which, since the 1960s, has evolved from a sort of proto-photorealism to a looser style. Also on view: the monumental Rat Tat Tat from 2001.