From the Archives: Ad Reinhardt Interviews Himself, in 1965
The article appeared as part of the magazine's "Paints a Picture" series.
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How to Fix the Art World, Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here are the links to Parts 1 and 2, and here’s a little background: Back in August my staff and I embarked on an…
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“Architecture of Life”
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its design. The recent construction boom among major American art institutions has resu…
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Strong Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Sale Totals $98 M., Sets Kenneth Noland Record at $3.37 M.
Sotheby’s capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $98 million. With 323 out of 418 lots finding buyers, 80 percent of the works that went on…
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Less Is More: Ad Reinhardt’s 12 Rules for Pure Art
When Kazimir Malevich painted Black Square (1915), whose title perfectly explains what it is, painting was pushed further into abstraction than it ever was before. A new show at London’s Whitechap<a href="http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/abstract-art/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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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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Ad Reinhardt, From Canvases to Cartoons: Interview with Rob Storr
You have to wonder how Ad Reinhardt would feel about his current show, at David Zwirner's 20th Street location in New York, with its walls and vitrines filled with several decades' worth of the arti…
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The Semi-Secret History of Modernism’s Best Comic Artist
A new show explores links between Ad Reinhardt's identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide-show maker
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MoMA Makes a Facebook for Abstractionists
A collaboration between MoMA curators and the Columbia Business School depicts early modernism as a vast social network. It's the latest in a long line of charts showing that no ism is an island
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