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How Freedom Was Aestheticized During the Cold War

by Adela Yawitz December 8, 2017December 9, 2017

The House of World Cultures’ exhibition tells the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s use of an aesthetic of freedom, and contextualizes the lasting legacy of modernism within the geopolitical power struggles of the Cold War.

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Two Cy Twombly Exhibitions Marry Myth and Sensual Abstraction

by Joseph Nechvatal February 8, 2017February 8, 2017

By a playful amalgam of semiotics with scatology, Twombly redevised history painting into palimpsest poop.

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The Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark

by John Yau January 29, 2017January 30, 2017

Ed Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to.

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An Ambitious Survey of the Titans of Abstract Expressionism

by Jason Andrew November 4, 2016November 6, 2016

This expansive AbEx show is brash, irreverent, and unconstrained, just like the period it aims to express.

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Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd September 14, 2016September 16, 2016

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original.

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When Painter Clyfford Still Sent Rubber Underpants to a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Female Art Critic

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne August 9, 2016August 11, 2016

In 1952, years before she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, art critic Emily Genauer received a pair of rubber underpants in the mail — the kind of underpants babies wore before the advent of disposable diapers.

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‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

by Yasmeen Siddiqui August 9, 2016August 11, 2016

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire for Graham to perform in Staunton at the all women’s school she attended, Mary Baldwin College.

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Why Were So Many Women Excluded from the History of Abstract Expressionism?

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 25, 2016April 19, 2022

In the fourth episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast we focus on the Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.

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Clyfford Still’s Radical Repetitions

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

DENVER — The Clyfford Still Museum’s current exhibition, Repeat/Recreate, has been on the institution’s wish list for nearly 10 years, since well before it even opened.

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The Elusive Painter Who Predicted Minimalism in the Mid 1950s

by Peter Malone November 19, 2015December 1, 2015

John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.

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Finally, an Exhibition Devoted to the Women of Abstract Expressionism

by Jillian Steinhauer September 24, 2015October 2, 2015

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth.

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Learning from an Artist’s Early Experiments with AbEx

by Peter Malone May 28, 2015May 28, 2015

For young painters today, Abstract Expressionism is ancient history; a few rooms in MoMA’s permanent collection galleries, a handful of images from the pages of Gardner or Janson, all set before a backdrop of a now mythical Downtown Manhattan of $200-dollar-a-month lofts.

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