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Postcard from Ad Reinhardt to Robert Smithson, 1967. Courtesy Robert Smithson Estate.
Inscribed copy of Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges from Robert Smithson to Ad Reinhardt. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
By Eleanor RayOCT 2017 | ArtSeen
Ad Reinhardt is known as an artist of extremes. While committed to abstract painting that became infamous for its austerity, he also had an expansive curiosity about art and the world. He was a vocal critic of the art market and his peers, as well as a proselytizer of art and architecture from disparate regions and periods, which he obsessively photographed for slide lectures.
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
By Nathlie ProvostyOCT 2017 | ArtSeen
1943, the year Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran to discuss their war strategy, Ad Reinhardt made a deep blue and green oil painting that is the earliest work in this Zwirner Gallery exhibition.
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
By Alex BaconOCT 2017 | ArtSeen
This presentation at David Zwirner Gallery is the largest exhibition of Ad Reinhardt’s blue paintings ever assembled, and the first dedicated to them since a seminal 1965 show at the Stable Gallery.
Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair
By Osman Can YerebakanNOV 2018 | ArtSeen
A bleached and fractured world surrounds the artist. To organize this mess of corrosion into patterns, grids, and subdivisions is an aesthetic process that has scarcely been touched,” explained Robert Smithson in his 1968 essay “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects.”
