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The Probity of Modernism: Collages...

David Cohen writes about collages by John Chamberlain and Alfred Leslie at Alan Stone Gallery, New York, on view through December 23, 2010. Cohen writes: "One strategy the artists have in common is to make potent expressive use out of a functional mode of affix, namely the staple. This comes across very forcefully in Leslie’s

"That Barnett Newman 'Onement' Painting Is, Like, So 1948"

Shane McAdams reviews the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York at MoMA. McAdams writes: "Like most of the people reading these words, I grew up in a generation that would view claims of painting's or New York’s supremacy as somewhat chauvinistic and confrontational. Our way has been more polite, less opinionated, and more circumspect, opting for