By Mario Naves 12:00am

Tangent to a Tangent, And Comfortably Content

Some 50 years ago, when the history of mid-20th-century American Modernism was being forged, Abstract Expressionism quashed all competitors, though from this distance its grand gestures begin to look smaller, its epochal conceits more flimsy. And what about the New York School’s sidelined rival, Indian Space Painting, with which it shared certain aspirations, in particular Read More

By Mario Naves 2/19/01 12:00am

Nell Blaine’s Quizzical Abstractions Reward Us

In 1998, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery presented Will Barnet: The Abstract Work, an exhibition highlighting a little-seen group of pictures by a painter known primarily for his figurative work. What made it an important show was not only the exceptional character of Mr. Barnet’s accomplishment, but how that accomplishment made plain the narrow manner Read More