Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“A Tale of Two Cities Gives Paris Its Due in the History of Postwar Painting”
The New York Sun, March 4, 2024

by David Hiroshi Jager

An inaugural show at New York University’s Grey Art Museum is challenging,
or at least diversifying, the longtime consensus that places ew York City at the
center of postwar painting.
Pollock, De Kooning, Kline, Rothko, and Mitchell – the giants who occupy the
mid-century collection of the Museum of Modern Art- come immediately to
mind in the standard narrative of Gotham as the mecca of postwar painting.
“Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France,” though, is a survey
exhibition of American artists who opted out of the eye of the art cyclone that
was 1950’s Manhattan and headed out to the city oflight instead.

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