8 Iconic MoMA Shows from the 1950s—and What ARTnews Said at the Time
See how critics responded to a posthumous Jackson Pollock survey, "16 Americans," and more.
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Then and Now: Lee Krasner’s Land of Her Own Invention
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‘I Wish I Could Find Some Way to Tell You How I Feel About Jackson’: Mark Rothko Writes to Lee Krasner After the Death of Jackson Pollock
The letter is held by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.
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Grace and Will: An Excerpt from Mary Gabriel’s New Book ‘Ninth Street Women’ on Painter Grace Hartigan and Art Market Changes in the 1950s
The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.
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From the Archives: Allan Kaprow on the Legacy of Jackson Pollock, in 1958
"He created some magnificent paintings. But he also destroyed painting."
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Slow Painting imbeds a premonition of something potentially enormous held in reserve that can only be revealed slowly.
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A Remixed Museum: The Louvre Abu Dhabi
All in all, while the Louvre Abu Dhabi can seem in places like an art-historical CliffsNotes, the ambition to reshuffle the deck and the fabulous objects thus brought together make the museum a game-c…
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Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible
From George Inness, who "translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour," to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like "voices of aspiration, joy or fear," to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rose…
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Washington Art Consortium Disbands, Collection to Be Distributed to Its Member Museums
The board of the Washington Art Consortium, a collective run by seven Washington State art museums, announced that it will disband. The consortium's central collection, which comprises more than 400…
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The Big Fake: Behind the Scenes of Knoedler Gallery’s Downfall
Domenico and Eleanore De Sole live most of the year in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Domenico is originally from Calabria, and he grew up in a military family, moving all around Italy. He got a law…
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