BU exhibition is long on talent, short on time Sep 8, 2008
It's so elemental it could be a Barnett Newman abstraction. Across the room, at an angle (like the window), is McPhee's "Irrigator's Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho." Phenomenally gray and threatening clouds dominate the image, but what jumps out is the tarpaulin. (Boston Globe)
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)
Jewish museum sees light after years of delays Jun 9, 2008
The museum commissioned new works from Matthew Ritchie, Ann Hamilton and other artists for one of its inaugural exhibitions, "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis." The show also includes works about the creation story by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, William Blake, Barnett Newman and others spanning about 600 years. Upstairs in the Yud gallery - a spirit-lifting space with a 65-foot ceiling and light streaming through 36 diamond-shaped windows - new music and stories by an eclectic range... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Contemporary Jewish Museum starts with Genesis Jun 8, 2008
Among these are a watercolor of God creating Eve by William Blake (1757-1827), a series of prints by Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), a dazzling wash drawing by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) and - the most improbable loan of all - an early abstract painting by Barnett Newman (1905-1970), improbable because the scarcity, fragility and value of Newman's art make most owners very reluctant to travel it. Newman's "Onement II" (1948), from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Freud nude shatters price record May 14, 2008
New records were set for Richard Prince, Tom Wesselmann, Sam Francis, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Robert Indiana and Peter Halley. The spring sales wrap up tomorrow at Sotheby's, which has assembled an even bigger contemporary and postwar sale than Christie's. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
First Exhibitions of 2008 at the Addison Gallery Range from Mid-Century Architecture to New England Landscapes Jan 17, 2008
Among the artists represented are John Singleton Copley, Eastman Johnson, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Theodore Roszak, Man Ray and Barnett Newman. While these three shows will be open to visitors starting on January 19, the opening reception for all of the winter exhibitions will occur on February 15, when Birth of the Cool, the final winter show, opens to the public. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Color as field Dec 29, 2007
He did not include Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman as Wilkin does in this exhibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts. The exhibition features more than 40 expansive canvases. (Durango Herald)
A beguiling look at abstract art Dec 23, 2007
The summer workshop became a pipeline to the latest developments in New York, attracting leading artists such as Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland and Donald Judd as well as the top critic of the era, Clement Greenberg. In 1963 Greenberg went to far as to describe the artists in Saskatchewan as "New York's only competitor." Emma Lake was instrumental in the development of the Regina Five -- Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay and Doug Morton -- which Greenberg also anointed as... (Vancouver Sun)
Galleries: The paint strokes between realism and abstraction Dec 2, 2007
Viewed as abstraction, it carves up the canvas into tasty episodes of brushwork while sustaining a constant backbeat of allusion to Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman and modernists' use of the grid to neutralize compositional values. For all its richness as painting, Oadahi's work hints at a bleak view of the contemporary world as a heedlessly urbanizing project. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Light, space are magical in Irwin's exhibition Oct 27, 2007
The title minus the 3 for in three dimensions is the same as a famous painting by Barnett Newman, which is clearly a catalyst for Irwin's installation. The same sort of panels, with secondary colors added to the mix along with black and white ones, form a set in another gallery. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Galleries: Hayward's works have a sense of refined restlessness Sep 16, 2007
A triptych titled "Automatic Painting 47 x 80 Black/White" (1977-79), despite its simplicity, recalls the work of Barnett Newman (1905-1970), Los Angeles painter John McLaughlin (1898-1976) and San Francisco painter John Meyer (1943-2002). These echoes intensify Hayward's triptych rather than dim it. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007 Aug 15, 2007
Some very good art would meet that description, by Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and so on. But a lot of it had a distinct whiff of the endgame about it. (Time.com)
Goodbye brings the blues Jul 21, 2007
But the thing is my favorite artist is Barnett Newman,'' famous for paintings consisting of a monochrome surface divided by a single vertical line, dubbed by Newman the ``zip. . (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Palo Alto show a lush garden of painterly delights Jul 8, 2007
When design overtakes McCormack's work, it strangles the nourishing passage into her art of remembrances of Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Pierre Bonnard, even Barnett Newman. But the Palo Alto Art Center show does for McCormack what a survey should do: It inspires confidence in her as an artist and confirms a growing, uncalculating authority -- just what we hope to see in a painter's art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Richard Serra Jun 5, 2007
Serra famously looked at Borromini churches in Rome before he started torquing steel, but his work is not "about" Baroque architecture any more than it's about Jackson Pollock or Barnett Newman or Donald Judd, whom he also looked at and learned from early on. The art is about the basic stuff of sculpture, isolated and recast: mass, weight, volume, material. (International Herald Tribune)
- Jonathan Jones May 1, 2007
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman created modern art with more elbow room than its European antecedents. Something about abstract expression liberated creativity even in artists like Johns, who rejected the movement. (Guardian Unlimited)
'I still have 1500 paintings to do' Mar 24, 2007
In London in the 1960s, he fell under the spell of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and others from the assertive American vanguard, yet he feels an affinity with "limp-wristed" artists such as Degas, Mary Cassat and Milton Avery. He admires Matisse - "I can see colour in a black-and-white Matisse charcoal" - and spent 30 years in a twist about Cezanne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Imaginary Solutions Mar 23, 2007
"He saw Minimalism as lacking humor, and it was the '60s and he was feeling the liberation of the '60s and the need to express it in art," says Mr. Taylor, adding that the boxes are "exquisite." Mr. Chimes, who had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts and the Art Students League in New York, had experienced Abstract Expressionism; he'd studied with Robert Rauschenberg, been part of the New York art scene, and didn't want to follow in the footsteps of Jackson Pollack, Barnett Newman... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
San Diego's shock of the new Feb 11, 2007
Richard Gluckman of Gluckman Mayner Architects turned the rundown baggage hub into the Jacobs Building by cleaning and clarifying the existing interior, dividing it into three major galleries with the original windows bringing in daylight, plus a smaller, windowless space that at the inauguration held significant works by Barnett Newman (1905-1970), Clyfford Still (1904-1980), Frank Stella and other pieces. A fourth, nonpublic, space makes the Jacobs Building unique among American art museums: a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Allan Stone, 74, art patron, expert Jan 15, 2007
He championed many artists who became famous -- including de Kooning, Barnett Newman, and Joseph Cornell -- and was among the first to show Richard Estes and Wayne Thiebaud. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
MCASD; A landmark arrival Jan 15, 2007
Modern American Masters looks back, with a lineup of iconic artists of the 1950s and 1960s, many represented by stellar paintings, in a show of promised gifts to the museum that showcases Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns and Edward Ruscha. The commissions encompass the international and the local. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Rockefeller Firm, Citigroup Tell Would-Be Buffetts How to Give Money Away Jan 12, 2007
3 million by selling works including paintings by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, two wooden boxes by Joseph Cornell and ``Sailcloth,'' a 1949 Willem de Kooning oil that once hung in their Fifth Avenue apartment's library. Jonas says he picked nursing as his beneficiary because he wanted a cause that had been overlooked by others. (Bloomberg)
The late show Dec 27, 2006
Add to this the significant element of the art market and its impact on a community and one can see how Dolk may call on everyone from Martin Heidegger to Barnett Newman in discussing Bedford's painting ... No one expects Paddy Bedford to have been influenced by Barnett Newman, although he may, interestingly enough, have taken something from another American master, Philip Guston, in those feathery, pink-grey smears that have become a trademark. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Peter Schjeldahl on Kiki Smith Nov 21, 2006
Her father was the sculptor Tony Smith, a close friend of Barnett Newman, and, rather like herself, an artist whose significance exceeds the sum of his material achievements. (His commanding geometric works only partly fulfill a visionary genius that both anticipated and overleaped minimalism. (New Yorker)
Media magnate in the making Nov 5, 2006
Before that, another Pollock, a Barnett Newman, an Andy Warhol and a Robert Rauschenberg went for a total of $80m. Maybe Geffen has just gone off painting. (Guardian Unlimited)
The tug of war Oct 27, 2006
A set of three screens, one with all its pixels red, one all blue, and one all green, is titled "Who's Afraid of Blue, Red, and Green?" -- a play on "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?" the famous proto-Minimalist, three-color triptych by Barnett Newman. Selichar's larger purpose is to invite meditation on that paradoxical, distinctively modern kind of experience in which we regularly travel to different virtual worlds while remaining physically immobile and staring through the thin,... (Boston Globe)
Young artists render something new Oct 17, 2006
These suggest inspiration from the 1960s' movement of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, but are done only in black. "This reference to modern art and elements of American art show the final stage of deconstruction and the first phase of building up," added Lee Soo-min, curator of the show. (Korea Herald, Korea)
At Green Street Gallery, technique and imagination run wild Oct 13, 2006
The backdrop of ``A Cardiogenic Fugue" is a Technicolor sunset, from which emerges a godly forearm loosely holding a heart. There's a self-portrait in the bottom foreground, in which the artist's skull has been cut open and a rulebook lies across his exposed brain.``Gang Green," in contrast, is a flat color-field work clearly paying tribute to, and affectionately teasing, Barnett Newman. Pappaceno has replaced Newman's famous ``zip," a vertical line down the canvas, with a vividly painted... (Boston Globe)
A conceptual artist makes sculpture out... Oct 12, 2006
He was influenced by painters such as Barnett Newman, Robert Ryman and most importantly, Frank Stella, and started painting in the '60s but soon felt as if painting had come to almost an end. "It was a time that photography really came into being considered art, I think, because of what happened to painting, which as modern art, became flatter and flatter till there was no space," he noted. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Echoes of tragedy, ecstasy and sublime Jun 30, 2006
For example, while Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock engaged in a highly gestural idiom, Rothko, along with Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, focused on the expressive potential of large color fields. Rothko in particular explored the physical sensations generated by an atmospheric field of radiant optical effects. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Alex Ross on Morton Feldman Jun 12, 2006
Feldman s scores were close in spirit to Rauschenberg s all-white and all-black canvases, Barnett Newman s gleaming lines, and, especially, Rothko s glowing fog banks of color. His habit of presenting the same figure many times in succession invites you to hear music as a gallery visitor sees paintings; you can study the sound from various angles, stand back or move up close, go away and come back for a second look. (New Yorker)
William Rubin — curator Jan 27, 2006
Rubin also added to MoMA s holdings of abstract expressionism, with works such as Jackson Pollock s One: Number 31, 1950, and expanded the museum s mission by acquiring more contemporary works by artists such as Barnett Newman and Frank Stella. Nevertheless, he was sometimes criticised for basking too comfortably in MoMA s illustrious history, focusing on formal presentation and French masterpieces. (TimesOnline)
Spirit of the age Jan 26, 2006
You can't imagine him going in for the pompous transcendentalism of a Barnett Newman, the "sublime" posturings of a Clyfford Still, or even the dilute, wide-screen pathos of the Rothko Chapel. He didn't give a damn about pie in the sky; what interested him more was a disc of used rubber from a truck tyre in the street, and what might happen if you nailed it on a striped board as part of a randomly accumulated "palette of objects". (Guardian Unlimited)
Art | Presenting 'Old Master' Rauschenberg Jan 8, 2006
It's amusing to be reminded that Rauschenberg made the combines as a way of teasing abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman for taking art so seriously. Now, ironically, here we are, taking him for an Old Master. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
