Elizabeth Smith
FRONT AND CENTER:
The Place of Archives at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
By Elizabeth Smith
A certain number of issues and challenges have, of course, presented themselves as we ready the archives for more in-depth research by a wider pool of potential users.
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation: Fostering New Insights
By Elizabeth SmithHelen Frankenthaler (1928 – 2011) had a long and prolific career that spanned more than five decades. She was especially prominent from the 1960s through the 1980s, with a powerful presence as one of the key artists of her generation working in an abstract mode. However, by the 1990s her work’s significance to and interest for then-current artistic discourse was waning. While she continued to be active into the early 2000s and was especially productive in the area of printmaking late in her career, at the time of her death her presence in the art world and influence on younger artists was little noted.
In Conversation
Secret Societies from Bohemians to Bullies—ED HAMILTON with Elizabeth Smith
By Elizabeth SmithEd Hamilton’s debut novel, Lords of the Schoolyard, is an unflinching depiction of bullying in suburban America. Though set in a southern town in the 1970s, the generic suburbia depicted in Lords of the Schoolyard could exist anywhere, at any time, in the U.S.A.
