In Fearful Symmetry, Northrop Frye wrote that a “line is a denial of all inertia and paralysis, all doubt and hesitation…(it) is both movement and […]
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Hedda Sterne’s infinite space
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Hedda Sterne was the only woman made famous by Nina Leen’s photograph The Irascibles for …
Anne Russinof: More than a gesture
Contributed by Michael Brennan / Anne Russinof passed away a year ago at the age of 68. “Gestural Symphony” is …
Trisha Donnelly: The real thing strange
Contributed by Talia Shiroma / The drawings in Trisha Donnelly’s show at the Drawing Center are a succession of curving …
John Kelly: The body is never abstract
Contributed by Bill Arning / In the mid-1980s, great art experiences of every conceivable stripe seemed to bloom prodigiously and …
Anne Wehrley Björk: Where sharks once thrived
Contributed by Jonathan Agin / Formed by erosion over millions of years, Chaco Canyon was the site of the Ancestral …
Laura Newman: Flatness and the illusion of depth
Contributed by Adam Simon / A photographer friend once asked me why painters are always talking about the space in …
Peter Plagens’ portals and vortexes
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / At Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Peter Plagens’ bracing new abstract paintings don’t so much as invite …
Su-Mei Tse, composer and orchestrator
Contributed by Joe Fyfe / A large souvenir brochure accompanied Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man” tour in the late 1980s. …
George Morrison, Native American modernist
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Before going to see “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” at the Met, I …
Jane Haimes: Rehabilitating geometric abstraction
Contributed by Michael Brennan / A painter I once knew – a highly regarded abstractionist, modernist, and lover of Matisse …
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