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Jack Whitten: Interview
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Yevgeniya Traps interviews painter Jack Whitten whose work is on view at Hauser & Wirth, New York through April 8, 2017. Whitten remarks: “I’m working with these units of paint, which I call tesserae—originally the word for ancient mosaics… The tesserae, in my mind, is the unit, it’s the thing that makes them. I can […]
Helen Lundeberg: Classic Attitude
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Dan Piepenbring highlights the exhibition Helen Lundeberg: Classic Attitude at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, on view through December 17, 2016. Piepenbring writes: “Lundeberg, who died in 1999, was a pivotal figure in the West Coast abstract circle. ‘By classicism I mean, not traditionalism of any sort, but a highly conscious concern with aesthetic structure,” she […]
Reading Cy Twombly
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Mary Jacobus blogs about the “inventive use of literary quotation and allusion throughout [CyTwombly’s] long career and his relation to poetry as an inspiration for his art,” the subject of her new book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press).