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Freud's last show in America was at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington in 1987. It didn't go to New York. It wasn't modern enough for the Museum of Modern Art; and at the Met there was a suspicion that, as one of its senior staff remarked, "Lucian can be wonderful one picture at a time, but a row of 20 could be a bit of a bore." Happily, the museum has now changed its tune and hung some 80 Freuds, the earliest done in 1945, the latest finished this year...
...show of paintings and sculpture by Jean Dubuffet, now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, is not exactly a retrospective. It covers only 20 years of the artist's working life, from 1943 to 1963. And the 100 or so works in it represent only about 1% of his enormous output. But Dubuffet was so visually loquacious that a full retrospective would be indigestible -- he repeated himself endlessly, especially in his later years. And by the same token, most of his best work was done in those first two decades, before he got down to filling...
...effort to present Dubuffet as one of the four truly important figures of postwar European art -- along with Giacometti, Bacon and Beuys -- the Hirshhorn has taken the right tack, for it's the early work that justifies the claim. Dubuffet came to art late. Until 1943, when he turned 41, he had been a businessman, a wine merchant. His career illustrates the energy that a late flowering can produce, both in art and in its attendant ideas. Dubuffet is, of course, widely known for his espousal of what he called Art Brut, or "raw art," the work of those untutored...
...that binge has been hard on most of them. Not on Susan Rothenberg, however. Her present retrospective of paintings and drawings, 20 years' worth of work -- it was organized by curator Michael Auping for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and is now at / the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington -- only confirms one's impression of the nerviness, durability and occasional brilliance of her development, and of the psychological integrity behind the twists and turns of her style...
...retrospective of the work of Eva Hesse organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and now in its last weeks at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington (it runs through Jan. 10) is one of the sleepers of the fall season. It deserves attention from anyone who cares about the history of art made by women in America -- and, in general, of sculpture since the 1960s. Hesse died of brain cancer in 1970 at 34, an age at which most artists' careers are barely under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work...