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    News and Articles on Ad Reinhardt



    Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 19401976  Oct 22, 2008
    Action/Abstraction features more than 50 key works that were carefully chosen from major institutions and collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, including major masterpieces by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, as well as Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, David Smith, Frank Stella and Clyfford Still. Viewed from the perspective of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and... (AbsoluteArts.com)

    A life on display  Jul 28, 2008
    For decades she was on the margins, a minor contemporary and friend of giants like de Kooning, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell, plumbing her potential as a Surrealist, then an Abstract Expressionist, and a Post-Minimalist. She was in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art by the early fifties, but remained largely ignored by the market. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    IMAGELESS: Findings of Pioneering AXA Art Conservation Research Project on View at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Opens July 11, 2008  Jul 3, 2008
    NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- AXA Art Insurance Corporation is pleased to announce its support of 'IMAGELESS: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting', an exhibition on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from July 11 through September 14, 2008 ... IMAGELESS grew out of a donation by AXA Art to the Guggenheim of a severely damaged Black Painting by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) for research study ... She had worked on an Ad Reinhardt exhibition... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    * Portrait of the artist as curator, and the dealer as artist  Jul 12, 2007
    In the final sequences, he compares kinds of blackness in a painting by Ad Reinhardt, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and another unusual Eakins study. He finishes with a striking arrangement of dark bronze or plaster portrait busts, including two tiny Daumiers, lined up in profile along the final wall. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    - Adrian Searle: Hogarth can't paint, but who cares?  Feb 6, 2007
    One modern equivalent to Hogarth might be the late American artist Ad Reinhardt, who delighted in overturning received opinion. He was as parodic as he was serious and made coruscating, humorous digs at an art world that nurtured and supported him. (Guardian Unlimited)




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