No Show: The Sprawling Ab Ex Survey That Wasn’t
Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around…
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Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
A concise guide for notable exhibitions through December
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True to Life: Elaine de Kooning on Stuart Davis, in 1957
With the Whitney Museum opening a massive, 100-work Stuart Davis retrospective, we turn back to the April 1957 issue of ARTnews, in which Elaine de Kooning reviewed a different retrospective, at…
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Knoedler Gallery Settles Three Lawsuits From Forgery Scandal
The Art Newspaper reports that Knoedler Gallery, in conjunction with former director Ann Friedman, gallery owner Michael Hammer, and Hammer’s company 8-31 Holdings, have “quietly” settled…
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Van Doren Waxter Gallery Now Represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation
The Upper East Side’s Van Doren Waxter Gallery now represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation, and will display a selection of Sterne’s works from April 2 to May 1. Sterne, who died in 2011 at…
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Beyond the Infinite: Robert Rosenblum on the Sublime in Contemporary Art, in 1961
In the February 1961 issue of ARTnews Robert Rosenblum tackled the tradition of the sublime, looking at art that instills feelings of fear and awe in viewers, overwhelming the senses. First…
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A Private Passion Goes Public: Stanford’s Anderson Collection
Stanford University, a hub of innovative entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and the origin of the "sharing economy" (think Uber and Airbnb), is now home to a magnificent example of art sharing. The…
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The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters
Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight
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Painter Brings New Meaning to the Word ‘Blah’
Mel Bochner, former Jewish Museum guard, returns in triumph with a survey of his word-based art
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