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Looking for James Ensor: the Belgian artist's prodigiously eclectic oeuvre, on view in an exhibition originating at MoMA and opening this month at the Musee d'Orsay, shows him to be at once an influential avant-gardist, anarchic malcontent, traditionalist
ANYONE IN SEARCH OF A CLEAR STORY line should probably stay away from James Ensor. His work reveals no rational development, stylistic consistency,...
Art in America, 10/01/09 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Guardians of the Avant-Garde: the exhibition "Action/Abstraction" examines Abstract Expressionism and its aftermath in light of a longstanding critical rivalry
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abstract Expressionism has engendered its fair share of museum exhibitions, although in recent...
Art in America, 09/01/08 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Milton Resnick: Cheim & Read
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Milton Resnick (1917-2004) was a young member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists...
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Michael Goldberg 1924-2007
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Goldberg, one of the last of the early Abstract Expressionists, died on Dec. 30 at age...
Art in America, 03/01/08 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Ab-Ex confidential: the way they were
Club Without Walls: Selections from the Journals of Philip Pavia, edited by Natalie Edgar, New York, Midmarch Arts Press, 2007; 186 pages, $25.00....
Art in America, 11/01/07 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Martin Ramirez: narratives of displacement and memory the term Outsider, often applied to Ramirez, poorly serves an artist whose work meets the highest standards of mainstream modernism on both formal and expressive grounds
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Martin Ramirez's marvelously expressive and formally inventive drawings of horseback riders,...
Art in America, 10/01/07 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
The dream of aboriginal art: the author reflects on the visual richness and symbolic complexity of an art form that has come to occupy a significant place in the history of modernism
"Who's that bugger who paints like me?" asked Rover Thomas, one of Australia's greatest Aboriginal painters, when, in 1990, he first encountered...
Art in America, 04/01/07 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Pop's high modernist: two recent exhibitions, bracketing Wesselmann's long career, celebrated a sometimes overlooked Pop painter whose sensuous but disciplined work owes as much to Matisse as to mass-media imagery
Tom Wesselmann, one of the original Pop artists, died in 2004. This past spring two nearly simultaneous gallery exhibitions in New York were...
Art in America, 12/01/06 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Street life: the fourth Berlin Biennial drew on the complex history of a single street, and on art of the past 30 years, to provide a rich context for new work by an international roster of artists
It would be safe to say that Berlin is not a city that wears its modern history lightly. Ghosts linger everywhere--from the Nazi period and the war...
Art in America, 10/01/06 by Richard Kalina · More from publication -
Lichtenstein's Indian territory: linking two bodies of painting based on Native-American subjects and motifs, and supplementing them with historical objects, a traveling exhibition explores a little-known aspect of Roy Lichtenstein's career
There are few facets of Roy Lichtenstein's Pop art production that have not been extensively exhibited and thoroughly explored critically. One...
Art in America, 04/01/06 by Richard Kalina · More from publication
