December 31, 2008
“When I’m with Sophia Loren in the movies I think of you,” wrote Ad Reinhardt to Olga Sheirr, a former student, nearly 50 years ago…
Month: December 2008
Art Quips / December 31, 2008
Once Frances Stoner Saunders blew the cover of the CIA in 1999 claiming that Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the larger anti-Communist movement operated hand-in-hand, contemporary art critics began to revisit this vaunted moment in American art history in an effort to reconcile “freedom of speech” with the larger tenets of the McCarthy era…Read Article
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ARTnews / December 2008
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Brooklyn Rail / December 12, 2008
Once one of my students told me in an office hour that on a recent plane ride she sat next to a lawyer who gossiped with her about a divorce he was arranging for one of my teachers; even though I didn’t want to hear about it, she needed to talk; fortunately for the principals, both of whom I deeply respected, the divorce never went through. I recall this now, confronted by an interesting exhibition of manuscript letters and cards as well as caricatural drawings and a classic print, by Ad Reinhardt…Read Article