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HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s, Frankenthaler's lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...sheet of steel cut and folded, a single plate of glass. And the cables that hold such pieces together are not mere connectors. They are conceived as drawing: exact lines whose tautness is both visual and structural. The ancestor whom they evoke is the pre-1914 Matisse, whose near abstract views of Notre Dame through the studio window had as much effect on Wilmarth's sculpture as they did on Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poetry In Glass and Steel | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s Frankenthaler's lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise of building abstract abilities in our children that are well grounded in actual experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Old Idea Makes a Comeback | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...influence on abstract expressionism in the '50s, Helen Frankenthaler opens in Manhattan a retrospective demonstrating that her lyrical canvases still give pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 133 No. 24 JUNE 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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