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...have said is the subject of an investigation but who has not been arrested or charged? Is it right to explore every aspect of his life, to sit outside his home with TV cameras for weeks on end? Is it right to sacrifice an individual's privacy to the abstract principle of the public's right to know...
Varnedoe's show does an immense service to Johns by trying to see him whole, as a painter with a continuous 40-year oeuvre, rather than as a hinge figure between movements--Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Minimalism and process art, or whatever. Johns has been thrust rather too easily into this role by his great influence on other artists. The deadpan stripes of his Flag, 1954-55, become the pinstripes of Frank Stella's black paintings in 1959, and his deliberateness, making the picture up in advance instead of discovering it in the act of painting, lies behind much process...
...fact is that not even a barrelful of historical balm can ease the ache of one of the most spectacularly boring presidential campaigns in history. But it may help to remember that while we celebrate our system of government in the abstract, we almost never seem to celebrate it in the concrete. Our campaigns, like wine and cheese, need time...
...several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America and especially after Abstract Expressionism...
Former Finance Committee chair Clay M. West '97, for one, admits that the process can seem "random, harsh and abstract," but insists the committee tries to consider all groups objectively...