Upcoming AKAG exhibition raises eyebrows in New York
In a show that has to be heartening for art critics everywhere, the Jewish Museum of New York City, in collaboration with our own Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the St. Louis Art Museum, has taken the rivalry of two famed art critics, Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenburg, and turned it into "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976." The show runs in New York until Sept. 21, later traveling to St. Louis in October and coming to the Albright-Knox from Feb. 13 to May 31, 2009. Check out the New York Times review.
The show explores work from an argumentative perspective, using the two critics' opposing viewpoints to display work that tries to encapsulate the essence of abstraction across a wide and crucial time period in American art history. Pollock's "Convergence," owned by the Albright-Knox, is the show's centerpiece.
UPDATE: The New York Sun review of the show ran on May 8.
-Colin Dabkowski
(Photo courtesy Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
