| Action Abstraction at the Jewish Museum, NYC |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |
| Tuesday, 06 May 2008 | |
 Willem de Kooning’s “Gotham News” (1955), and Jackson Pollock’s “Convergence” (1952): photo from NY Times If you get a chance to visit NYC this summer, be sure to stop by the Jewish Museum on the upper east side to check out "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976" featuring an outstanding slate of Abstract Expressionist artists including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. From the NY Times review of the show: Also on view are the delusional letters that Clyfford Still wrote to [seminal NY School art critics Harold] Rosenberg and [Clement] Greenberg denouncing their (favorable) ideas about his painting, proving that a smaller art world was not always a friendlier one. The artworks and ephemera assembled here rub salt in all kinds of old wounds, even if the wounded are long gone. The exhibit runs until September 21st, 2008 at the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423 3200. And if you can't make it to NYC, check out this slideshow from the exhibit, and keep an eye here for more info as the show makes its way to the Saint Louis Art Museum, a little closer to home.
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