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Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection" considers tht vital moment in the history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Barnett Newman. Through...
...color, a discourse of the medium alone -- cuts no ice today. Granted, too, the recoil from such prescriptions was both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...
...wild plants, relying mostly on nuts, grasses, fish, deer and migrating waterfowl, while people across Europe, Africa and Asia were already accomplished farmers. But elsewhere in the U.S. Midwest, populations of hunter-gatherers had staked out territories and built an extensive trading network that dealt in copper, hematite, seashells, jasper and other minerals. Fishing societies along the Pacific Coast were also becoming more complex, as natives took to the sea to hunt seals, whales and other marine mammals...
...same might be said of many features of The Bathtub. The set is structured like a modern art gallery, and the audience has to walk through it to reach the stage. While some of the art objects are used to satirical effect--Senator Hum poses under Jasper Johns' "Three Flags" for a patriotic-looking photo--others seem intriguing but extraneous. There seems to be little function for a polyurethane foam "Iava" trail that leads from the audience to the side wall of the stage...
...Jasper Johns, Richard Serra and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Z. Rudenstine--Through August 9. Sackler Museum...