In weekly posts, I discuss the larger meanings of art, the deeper meanings of politics, and the unsuspected meanings of (nearly) everything else.
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A Material Transformed: How the Heirs of Minimalism Changed the Very Nature of Paper
Dan Graham, Homes for America, 1966
This is a revised version of an essay I published in 2001. Artists’ innovations generate new forms, new content, or both. On rare occasions, they change the nature of a medium—as I argue here, with apolo...
Franz Kline: The Action Painter Who Wasn't
In this excerpt from an essay published last spring, in the catalog of a Franz Kline exhibition at the Mnuchin Gallery, I question a label that is almost automatically to this painter. The implied moral of the story: all our art-labels are...
The Politics of Abstract Painting
Piet Mondrian in his New York Studio, early 1940s
To pick up where we left off last week: what about the idea that abstract painting is inherently progressive, that it aligns itself with those who work for equality, democracy, and the comm...
Art and Politics: The Case of Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis Daid, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. The Louvre, Paris
Jacques-Louis David flourished under three forms of government: the monarchy of King Louis XVI, the revolutionary regime launched in 1789, and the dictatorship of Napoleo...
Not a Bad Pumpkin: A Memoir
Robert Ryman, Surface Veil I, 1970. Guggenheim Museum, New York
In 1971, I published, in ArtNews, the first full-length feature essay on Robert Ryman. In those days, ArtNews still advocated Abstract Expressionism and such painterly realist...
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