“This exhibition gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception. During this period, many artists adopted acrylic paint—a newly available, plastic-based medium—and explored its expansive technical possibilities and wider range of hues. Color… Read More
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The Long Run at The Museum of Modern Art, through November 4, 2018
“Innovation in art is often characterized as a singular event—a bolt of lightning that strikes once and forever changes the course of what follows. This installation provides an alternative view: by chronicling the continual experimentation of artists long after their breakthrough moments, it suggests that… Read More
The Illusive Eye: An International Survey of Kinetic and Op Art at El Museo del Barrio, February 3 – May 21, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The Illusive Eye is about illusions—those we see and feel when we look at Op and kinetic art and those experienced by the curators and art historians of these movements. The perceptual play of things seen and unseen provides us with… Read More
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 at Brooklyn Museum, through March 13, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The modern American mass-culture industry was born at Coney Island, and the constant novelty of the resort made it a seductively liberating subject for artists. What these artists saw from 1861 to 2008 at Coney Island, and the varied ways in… Read More
Frank Stella: A Retrospective at Whitney Museum of American Art, October 30, 2015 – February 7, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Frank Stella: A Retrospective brings together the artist’s best-known works installed alongside lesser known examples to reveal the extraordinary scope and diversity of his nearly sixty-year career. Approximately 100 works, including icons of major museum and private collections, will be shown.… Read More
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