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Edward Hopper: Drawing Process
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Alex Heimbach reviews the exhibition Edward Hopper: Drawing at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, on view through October 6, 2013. Citing a suite of preparatory drawings displayed with the painting Rooms for Tourists (1945), Heimbach writes that “curator Carter E. Foster has cleverly arranged the space to showcase how Hopper drafted his final […]
Geneviève Asse @ the Centre Pompidou
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John Yau blogs about the exhibition Geneviève Asse: Paintings at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on view through September 9, 2013. Yau writes that “Although Asse works in the domain of monochrome painting and geometric abstraction, she is the opposite of such objective-minded artists as Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. For all of her restraint and […]
Experimental Italian Painting of the 1960s
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Thomas Micchelli reviews the exhibition Post-War Italian Art: Accardi, Dorazio, Fontana, Schifano at Sperone Westwater, New York, on view through May 4, 2013. Micchelli writes: “The works in this show have in common an enduring simplicity of means, a Classicism pliant enough to encompass minimalist analytics, anti-art stratagems and the headiness of Pop. The work […]