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Nancy Herman: Totems
The major part of Nancy Herman’s small but select show at her gallery in Narberth covers a single long wall, but it says a great deal about looking, and the how and why of what [ Read Article ]
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A Strong Place: Robert Richenburg at the Findlay Gallery
The story of American Abstract Expressionism in its mid-twentieth century heyday seems a settled one, at least as far as its major figures are concerned: Rothko, Gorky, de Kooning, Newman, Still, Pollock, Guston, Kline, and [ Read Article ]
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Shafts of Light, Slants of Dark: Nancy Herman Paintings at the Cosmopolitan Club
Nancy Clearwater Herman is perhaps best known for her large, richly complex quilts and hangings. The present exhibit at the Cosmopolitan Club shows another aspect of her art. The mostly small oil paintings on display [ Read Article ]
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Poor Richard, Poor Donald: Philip Guston’s Timely Show at Hauser & Wirth
There isn’t a timelier art exhibit anywhere at the moment than the show of Philip Guston’s suite of drawings about Richard Nixon and his era now on display at Hauser & Wirth’s new gallery on [ Read Article ]
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“An Idiot, an Imbecile, and a Pickpocket”: Francis Picabia at the Museum of Modern Art
Francis Picabia (1879-1953), born in Paris to a French mother and a Cuban father, was an exact contemporary of Pablo Picasso and a close one of Braque and Léger. His painterly skill and pictorial imagination [ Read Article ]
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One Strange Dude: Piero di Cosimo at the National Gallery of Art
Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Painters, describes Piero di Cosimo as a man who lived “in the strangeness of his mind,” beset by fears that were also compulsions—his pyrophobia was so intense, Vasari [ Read Article ]