Barry Schwabsky is an art critic, art historian, and poet based in New York City.
Amid the bare studs of a vacant FiDi highrise, a self-organized exhibition reanimates memories of New York’s abandonment and once-settled feuds over the myths of abstract art.
Premised on the closeness of their Île-de-France homes, a juxtaposition in Paris of Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell incidentally reveals the contrasts in their responses to landscape.
