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Why Joan Mitchell’s Paintings Can Never Die

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney March 23, 2022March 25, 2022

Unlike the more celebrated painters around her, she didn’t resolve herself to working the same issues over and over; she kept asking herself other questions, pushing the paint to do what it had not quite done before.

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Joan Mitchell, a Brilliant Painter and Contrarian at Heart

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn October 11, 2021October 14, 2021

If painting was Mitchell’s sickness, it was also her salvation.

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Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet

Avatar photo by Tim Keane April 9, 2021November 23, 2022

Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.

Joan Mitchell, "No Rain" (1976)
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A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell

Avatar photo by Yale University Press March 9, 2021March 10, 2021

Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.

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The Joan Mitchell You’ve Never Seen

by John Yau June 23, 2019June 21, 2019

Highly analytical, Mitchell was a master of setting off one form or color against another, advancing the idea that a painting can be made of separate but layered and entangled parts.

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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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The Passions and Posthumanism of Two Abstract Expressionists

by Joseph Nechvatal January 2, 2019December 31, 2018

The works of painters Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle foster a dialectic between pure gestural abstraction and lyrical suggestions of the grandeur of nature.

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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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Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art

by Barry Nemett May 27, 2017May 26, 2017

The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.

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Paintings that Praise the Paradises of Bohemia

by Patrick Neal May 12, 2017

Thomas Trosch’s paintings at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery recall idyllic settings from movie musicals.

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When Experimental Music Resonated with Abstract Art

by Daniel Fox March 9, 2017March 8, 2017

The exhibition includes scores by John Cage and Morton Feldman, paintings by Philip Guston, sculpture and works on paper by Louise Bourgeois and David Smith, and oil paintings by Joan Mitchell.

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Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach

by Rob Colvin December 2, 2016December 2, 2016

At Art Basel Miami Beach, if you only look at the art, it’s an affair worth the trip, because if you want to see the newest art made in Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Barcelona, or Berlin, it’s here.

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