AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings

By Eleanor Ray

OCT 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 Provosty

OCT 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 Bacon

OCT 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.

Somewhere Some Pictures Sometimes

By Jan Avgikos

NOV 2017 | ArtSeen

A funny coincidence happened on my way to see Cheyney Thompson’s exhibition of new Quantity Paintings, entitled Somewhere Some Pictures Sometimes. First I stopped in at David Zwirner’s to see all the blue paintings that Ad Reinhardt ever painted.