In 1910, the great British critic and painter Roger Fry coined the term “Postimpressionist” to describe the visually and conceptually challenging work of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and other avant-garde French artists with whom he was smitten. “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction,” the sprawling exhibition of more than 150 intersections between 20th century art and cloth that currently …
Jim Isermann’s art of the past 40 years comprises a body of hybrid work celebrated as crucial to the emergence of design as a discipline as powerful as painting and sculpture. Larry Bell’s “Cube” of vacuum-coated glass, which infused the form with a shifting halation that transmits, absorbs and reflects atmospheric colored light transmuted the rigid, rational form into an …
