Robert Indiana’s totemic sculptures and hard edge paintings filled with enigmatic numbers and text were lionized by New York art critics in the early 1960s, who listed him with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist as one of young Turks taking on the rule of abstract expressionism.
Last fall, ARTNews reported that renowned conceptual artist Adrian Piper had asked New York University’s Grey Art Gallery to remove her video from the traveling exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.
Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds is a remarkable exhibition of mostly drawingsby an artist whose name was once as familiar as Helen Frankenthaler and Jasper Johns.
Dallas-based artist David Bates is the subject of a two-venue retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
