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Helen Frankenthaler

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What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn May 22, 2021May 21, 2021

Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.

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New Helen Frankenthaler Biography Favors Nostalgia Over Artist’s Interiority

Avatar photo by Lily Meyer March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

In Fierce Poise, the paternalistic attitude toward Frankenthaler undermines both the author’s gifts and the artist’s.

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The Visual Magic of Helen Frankenthaler’s Los Angeles Prints

Avatar photo by Jennifer Remenchik October 13, 2020January 20, 2021

In 1979, Frankenthaler traveled to the West Coast and was introduced to the gallery and studio Mixografia, where she would eventually produce a series of serene and exuberant prints.

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Color Field, Then and Now

by David Carrier March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

I fear that the visual culture in which these works were admired is now one of those distant “you had to be there” moments, which are impossible to reconstruct.

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A Podcast on Radical Women Unearths Rare Interviews With Alice Neel, Betye Saar, and More

by Alissa Guzman January 27, 2020September 30, 2021

This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.

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How Helen Frankenthaler’s Coastal Escapes Shaped Her Paintings

Avatar photo by Billie Anania September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

The summer hues of coastal Massachusetts deeply influenced Frankenthaler; its landscapes and seashores would become her muses for more than a decade.

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Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale

by David Carrier July 6, 2019July 21, 2019

The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.

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The Colors of the Sixties

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 6, 2019December 27, 2019

Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.

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The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism

by David Carrier January 12, 2019January 10, 2019

When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.

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How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art

Avatar photo by Kathryn Watson October 3, 2018

Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.

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The Common Threads Between Female Quilters and Abstract Expressionists

Avatar photo by Claire Selvin January 12, 2018January 12, 2018

At one time or other these women’s craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2017

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 30, 2017January 4, 2021

A year of truth-telling and electric painting.

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