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At the National Gallery of Art: Selections from the Meyerhoff Collection and ‘Arts of Privacy’

The only thing dull about The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection at the National Gallery of Art: Selected Works (NGA) through May 2, 2010 is the exhibition title.  I’d rather call it, with apologies to Wallace Stevens, Ten Ways of Looking at a Painting, with further apologies for the handful of drawings, prints and 3-dimensional works;  it is overwhelmingly a paintings exhibition.  The works, some already donated, the remainder promised to the NGA, are superb and the curatorial decisions intelligent, provocative and subtle.  Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art, arranged ten sections, each labeled with a subject to ... More » »

Painted Space, Real Space and Frank Stella

Post By Daniel Payavis Modernist painting has put serious restrictions on the illusion of pictorial space that had been growing so rich for more than 400 years. The limitations modern painting set for itself, at once cutting itself off from its potent past and viable future, led Frank Stella, in his lecture series Working Space, to rally for the essential nature of illusionistic space and its necessity for the ensured vitality of painting. Stella’s relationship with space is complex and unclear; he advocates the use of inventive pictorial space within the painted image, yet has hardly dealt with it himself. ... More » »