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As I think of the successes and failures of artists’ legacies, I’ve learned different stories tell different life’s circumstances, depending on luck and persistent efforts on the behalf of those who are dedicating their lives to perpetually keeping the artists’ works alive and contextually relevant in the former, while in the latter what requires of the artists’ caretakers, be it members of their families, friends or colleagues there my lack of clarity of intentions or self-motivations.

Much has been extolled about Rothko’s retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (LVF) in Paris, but the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), featuring work on two levels, reveals the breadth of Rothko’s painting through highlighting smaller scale works and explorations on paper in which he employs a heavy watercolor paper substrate alternating with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and oil paint.

Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth greets the viewer with a 1965 quotation by the artist: “My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash—like something you caught out of the corner of your eye.” Conceived and curated by Karen Baumgartner, the show follows Wyeth’s dedication to this “abstract flash” in sixty watercolors painted between 1939 and 1996. The show, drawn entirely from the trove of over seven thousand Wyeth paintings and drawings in the new Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection, is divided between the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, ...

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The title of this exhibition, All One Thing, reflects the broad inclusivity of the aesthetic process. It asserts that the painting and the viewer are