The joy of creation beats the negativity of illness

Exhibition paired artists from Iceland and Philadelphia

Janice Van Horne Greenberg, author of this book reviewed in 2012, passed October 14. RIP Jenny

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) 212 423 3500 February 3-May 14, 2006   David Smith’s preoccupations with human and animal form had less to do with a romanticized yearning for a pre-industrial past or, as some critics have suggested, opportunistic cultural grave robbing, than they had to do with an … Continued

“David Smith: Related Clues” at Gagosian Gallery until April 17 (555 West 24th Street, at 11th Avenue, 212-741-1111) “Carl Andre: Lament for the Children 1976/1996” at Paula Cooper until April 3 (534 West 21st Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-255-1105)   Gagosian has assembled an exhibition of works by David Smith that any museum … Continued