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David Smith's Show at the Whitney

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Sarah Lawrence College, Art Students League, David Smith, Willem De Kooning, Whitney Museum, Hans Hoffmann, Bolton Landing, Arts News
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Oh, was I ever looking forward to seeing David Smith's work at the Whitney! I actually loved his early work best. Some of his sculpture looked...

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David Tourje: La Aboriginal (Video)

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Art, Art Opening, Gregory Way Gallery, Cal Arts, Hans Hoffmann, Chouinard Foundation, Dave Tourje, Disney, South Pasadena, La Art Openings, Arts News
Tom Gregory

While I grew up trying to answer impossible questions about assassinations, war and civil unrest, Dave Tourje looked to POP art for more esoteric answers about society and the future.

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Power in Numbers -- Impressive Group Exhibitions

Paul Klein | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Jim Lutes, Houston Art, Eva Hesse, Chicago Art, Finnegan Gallery, Hans Hoffmann, Jennifer Wolfe, Thomas Masters, Peter Legrand, Chicago Artadia Award, Valerie Carberry, Artadia, Chicago News
Paul Klein

Summer is clearly the time for group shows and none I saw came with the weighty hand a curator sometimes imposes.

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Great Masters vs. Six-Year-Old's Doodles

Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Masterpiece, Mark Rothko, Psychology, Abstract Expressionism, Painting, Freddie Linsky, Genius, Psychological Science, Boston College, Art, Cy Twombley, Ellen Winner, Jack Pezanosky, Angelina Hawley-Dolan, Hans Hoffmann, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) Before beginning to read this article, please look at the images above. Which was drawn by a child and which by a well-known Abstr...

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Trilling Lecture, Paco Benet, Martha Foley, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Alfred-Leslie, Rudy Burkhardt, Carson McCullers, The Reading Room, Chekhov, Jean-Luc Godard, J.D. Salinger, Louise Lasser, Claude-Lanzmann, Hans Hoffmann, Beat Generation, Primo Levi, Velazquez, Apropos De Nice, Barbara Probst Solomon, Kenneth Koch, Cervantes, Frank O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Moma, Peter Schjeldahl, The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Dissent, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Vigo, Abstract Expressionism, Tibor-De-Nagy, Jane-Freilicher, Larry Rivers, John Updike, Norman Mailer, El Pais, Robert Lowell, Marcel Proust, Prado, Felix-Nussbaum, Lionel Abel, Breathless, Columbia University, Grace Hartigan, Helen-Frankenthaler, Peninsula, Professor Yerushalami, Joseph Roth, Arts News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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