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Alexander Calder’s fine high wire act
‘Mid-century modern’ is the useful term popularised by Cara Greenberg’s 1984 book of that title. The United States, the civilisation…
In search of Chicago’s artistic past – and present
The Windy City has inspired everyone from Hemingway to Saul Bellow – and now William Cook
The Victorian artist who was more Jackson Pollock than Pre-Raphaelite
On his deathbed in 1904, George Frederic Watts saw a extraordinary spectacle. He witnessed the universe coming into being: the…
The good, the bad and the ugly: RA’s America after the Fall reviewed
The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy is entitled America after the Fall. It deals with painting in the United…
The first half is essential – the second much less so: Tate's Robert Rauschenberg reviewed
Robert Rauschenberg, like Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, was a ‘snapper-up of unconsidered trifles’. Unlike Shakespeare’s character, however, he made…
In search of New York’s artistic past – and present
As the Royal Academy hosts the abstract expressionists, John Gimlette heads to New York in search of its painterly haunts
Majestic, exhilarating and overpowering: Royal Academy’s Abstract Expressionism reviewed
Martin Gayford is dazzled by the scale, majesty and visual power of the Royal Academy’s Abstract Expressionism show
A strain of mysticism is discernible in the floating colour fields of Mark Rothko’s glowing canvases
Philip Hensher on the perverse, tormented Mark Rothko, whose anger and depression — often painfully apparent in his art — only increased with his success
To call this offering a book is an abuse of language
I picked up this book with real enthusiasm. Who cannot be entranced by those 20 years after the second world…
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