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Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach
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.
Joan Mitchell
Interview
Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on 'Women of Abstract Expressionism'
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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A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room
Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, w
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The Pursuit of Art, 2014
The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.
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Tougher than the Rest: Joan Mitchell's Tree Paintings and Black Drawings
There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities shift from a dominant mode expression to something altogether different.
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America’s Grand Gestures Reign Supreme Again in Basel
BASEL, Switzerland — Fifty-five years ago, the exhibition The New American Painting arrived at the Kunsthalle Basel. It was the first stop on a yearlong tour that touted the work of seventeen Abstract Expressionists before eight European countries — the first comprehensive exhibition to be sent to E
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How to Be a Lady Painter
I think it's funny that Patricia Albers's recent and authoritative biography on Joan Mitchell was given the subtitle “Lady Painter.” It's my only guess that Mitchell's lifestyle and her painting were so out of character for the time that the term becomes ironic. The artist was known for her camarade
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The Overlooked Prints of the Abstract Expressionists
Tomorrow, Swann auction house will be presenting a sale, "Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & the New York School," which showcases the prints of the Abstract Expressionist era that are often overlooked because the larger, flashier paintings inevitably grab the spotlight. The sale has a particular