Richard Diebenkorn’s exploration of color: Some critics believe that the rightly revered “Ocean Park” color field series of paintings by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) depicts abstracted interpretations of the view from the artist’s studio in the town of Venice, near Santa Monica in southern California. In fact, Diebenkorn once revealed that if there is any relationship between these abstract paintings and the outside world, it is derived from an unlikely source: a helicopter. [CSM]
When the Islamic World Was Inspired by the West: Such shifts in energy form the background to “Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” a superb small scholarly show, one as revealing of the past as it is germane to the present, at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College. [NYT]
Turning cities into art galleries: Public art can generate big revenues and beautify urban areas. Or it can anger residents. How does one measure its success? [CSM]
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