"LEON GOLUB: PAINTINGS, 1950-2000".(Brooklyn Museum of Art)

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART

Cruelly truncated in its Brooklyn hanging after its inaugural run at the sprawling Irish Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition was hardly a retrospective--but I'll forgive it that for starting things off with a fine mess. Spat out roughly midway along the triumphant march that led from Jasper Johns's 1954-55 Flag to Barbara Kruger's 1991 version emblazoned on the exterior of the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Golub's Napalm Flag, 1970, desecrates a la Dubuffet. If the trajectory traced from Johns to Kruger transformed the avant-garde's target from ...

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