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Sackler Museum. "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition," through Jan. 23. "From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan," through Oct. 31. "Rothko's Harvard Murals," through...
...immersed in the self-sufficient culture of Western painting from Giotto right through to his own time, as well as in African art. It may be that curator Sharon F. Patton thought she was paying him some kind of compliment in writing that "like Pollock, de Kooning . . . and Rothko, Bearden, too, rejected the modernist tradition," but this is nonsense: none of those artists, Bearden least of all, did any such thing...
...course, it's not all fun and games. Occasionally you can furrow your brow and talk about what a shame it is that Rothko's paintings have deteriorated, or about how terrible it is that Michelangelo's bronze statue of Pope Julius II was melted down to make a cannon...
...pictures except a Sean Scully, a Brice Marden, two Dubuffets and the Rauschenberg reached or exceeded their low estimates, and most were well below them. A Rothko work estimated at $1.8 million to $2.2 million was unsold at $1.25 million. Nothing by Andy Warhol sold that night. Younger artists whose star had risen in the '80s did no better. An Eric Fischl, Northern Girl, estimated at $450,000 to $600,000, went begging...
...Indianapolis Museum of Art, is -- quite apart from its intrinsic qualities -- a sobering reminder of how edited a picture of art history New York City's museums have lately been giving their public. Here is an American artist of real distinction, now 74, a contemporary of De Kooning, Rothko and Pollock, with whom he appeared in the famous photo of The Irascibles, the cast of Abstract Expressionism, in LIFE magazine in 1951. Nevertheless, he has virtually been dropped from the history of the New York School. At most, Pousette-Dart has had a sentence or two (and not always that...