The over-determined "concept based" art encouraged by most present-day art schools is unlikely to disappear anytime soon, but some recent exhibitions were welcome reminders that not that long ago abstraction provoked by internal imperatives, not by carefully researched “strategies,” was a dominant mode, commanding equal attention with Pop Art and Minimalism. Since the triumph of […]

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