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PORT (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Barnett Newman's Canto #7, full set on display now The Portland Art Museum has shuffled more than a little bit around with some very distinguished guests including Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol (a more sweeping rehang of the nearly 3 year old Jubitz Center for Contemporary Art should be expected an a year or two). Also, There's the new Marc Dombrosky show at Apex (I found it underwhelming; crafty...
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Adventures of Hoogrrl! (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
I have been coveting these Peter Dayton "surfboards" inspired by stripe artists, like Barnett Newman and Kenneth Noland, who were favored by the powerful critic Clement Greenberg. I also liked this Matt Spahr installation at Civilian Art Projects last November, which incorporates Greg Noll-inspired designs and employs actual surfboard-making techniques. Why am I posting about this now? Because after...
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Aaron Siskind... Chicago 30, 1949 (Silver Print). From the exhibition Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years, 1947-1954 at Robert Mann Gallery. "...At the recommendation of his friend Barnett Newman, photographer Aaron Siskind paid a visit to art dealer Charles Egan, one of the few gallerists in New York devoted to contemporary art at the time. The result was four exhibitions at the Egan Gallery. Siskind's...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Action/Abstraction,” at the Jewish Museum, is more a perambulatory essay than an art exhibition, though it incorporates superb exhibits: classic paintings by the rival godheads of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and fine works by other members (notably Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still), important . . .
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
This exceedingly handsome show features works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman.
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Hankblog (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
Who says that UW campus isn’t the place to be for Spring Break? The Yoshino cherry trees are in full bloom on the quad and this morning Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk was dismantled for routine cleaning. Both a crane and a flatbed truck were involved. I am more familiar with Barnett Newman’s zip paintings so [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Johns also talked about art in different ways from the Abstract Expressionists. Barnett Newman once claimed that if "read...properly my work would mean the end of all state capitalism and totalitarianism." But in a sketchbook note from the early Sixties,...
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smARThistory (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
An enhanced podcast about Barnett Newman's Onement, I, 1948 (MoMA). Download Newman, Onement I
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PORT (Free subscription) | 21/12/2007
"The Kwakiutl artist painting on a hide did not concern himself with the inconsequentials that made up the opulent social rivalries of the Northwest Coast Indian scene, nor did he, in the name of a higher purity, renounce the living world for the meaningless materialism of design. The abstract shape he used, his entire plastic language, was directed by a ritualistic will towards metaphysical understanding....
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Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 02/12/2007
hitorri 111 When I reviewed �Bar Sachiko� on these pages, I used a Barnett Newman painting as a visual analogy for how one might read the set of three sine tones presented on that disc. It may be unfortunately...
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Grammar.police (Free subscription) | 23/10/2007
Reading over a 2002 Artforum essay on Barnett Newman by Yve-Alain Bois I was struck by a detail that I'd either missed or forgotten: Perhaps the most lethal label is Newman as Conceptual artist, for it prevented people from paying...
