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Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph over Tragedy
. Feb. 2026. ISBN 9798897100408. $35. BIOGRAPHY COPY ISBN The first biography of Alice Baber (1928–82) rediscovers the abstract artist, feminist, activist, and curator. Part of the midcentury New York City art scene, Baber was known for her colorful watercolors and seen as a visionary artist by her contemporaries. In her lifetime, her art was in exhibitions, solo shows, and the permanent collections of New York’s major museums. The year 2024 marked the first exhibition of Baber’s works in 40 years.
Hopper horrors at the Whitney, by Gail Levin
Hilton Kramer, who founded this magazine in 1982, was one of the great defenders of the art of Edward Hopper. He was especially concerned with the scandalous treatment given to Hopper by the Whitney Museum of American Art following the artist’s death in 1967.
Issues | The New Criterion
January 2024 New York chronicle by Jay Nordlinger On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House & David Geffen Hall.
Edward Hopper
About the Book New York Times Notable Book Book Prize Finalist One of Five Best Artist Biographies Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings. What kind of man had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art?
Three Female Artists Who Helped Create Abstract Expressionism: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning & Helen Frankenthaler.
The three artists that gallerists James Payne and Joanne Shurvell have chosen to represent New York City in their series Great Art Cities Explained are as refreshing as they are surprising. Andy Warhol? Nope. Keith Haring? No. Jean-Michel Basquiat? Uh-uh. These gents would be the obvious choice, though only one of the three – Basquiat was a native New Yorker. Instead, Payne and Shurvell aim their spotlight at three NYC-born Abstract Expressionists.
Kitschy, antisemitic or something else? The strange history of the faux-Hebrew font
🇺🇦 Ukraine has canceled the annual High Holiday pilgrimage to Uman because of the war, and Israel’s foreign ministry warned its citizens this week against making the trip. But up to 15,000 are nonetheless expected to visit the tomb of the early Hasidic leader Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. (Haaretz) 🇷🇺 Also on the war front, an Israeli delegation flew to Moscow Wednesday evening in an effort to keep the Jewish Agency open there.
A friend to artists, an inspiration to students, Alex Rosenberg lived a life of activism and reinvention
Long after I feared asking someone of his advanced age to give up his time, Alex J. Rosenberg insisted upon returning annually to speak to my undergraduate class on the art market. My students, at Baruch College in the City University of New York, loved hearing Alex, a natural raconteur, tell stories about working with artists like Salvador Dali or Sonia Delaunay.
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