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ArtSeptember 2012 Exhibition note by Mario Naves On "Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Maybe it’s the Guggenheim or maybe it’s me, but “Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960” seems a bore. “Seems” is used here as a critical hedge: The exhibition includes an inescapable array of artists and some stunning works. But the problem—or part of the problem—is how many of the works aren’t stunning, but merely diverting or symptomatic of the time. “Art of Another Kind” isn’t intended to be a definitive retrospective of an era—roughly speaking, the decade in which Abstract Expressionism achieved Grand Manner status. The curatorial focus, rather, is on one institution’s accounting of the avant-garde and, as such, is both defined and limited by the museum’s pe ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 September 2012, on page 49 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-7432
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by Mario Naves On "The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913” at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ. by Mario Naves On "Piero della Francesca in America” at The Frick Collection, New York. by Karen Wilkin On “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. On "Man Ray: Portraits” at the National Portrait Gallery, London. by James Panero On “Dana Gordon & John Mendelsohn: New Paintings” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, “Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, “Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings” at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, and “John Dubrow: Recent Work” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
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