art exhibitions and historical narratives

Arts correspondent Julia Waite looks at trends in historical art narratives.

She's been looking at exhibitions at MoMA (The new collection exhibition and Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction-The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift), The Whitney (Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945), The Met (Epic Abstraction), The Guggenheim (Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting and Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction) and Grey Gallery at NYU (Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s).
 

Picasso and Faith Ringgold at new MoMA.

Fullness of color 1960s painting.

Morris Hirshfield Angora Cat 1937-39 (dated on painting 1937).

Epic abstraction.

Marking time process in minimal abstraction.

Van Gogh and a typical crowd at the new MoMA.

Taking shape abstraction from the Arab world 1950s and 60s.

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