It was a treat to enter the Grey Art Museum’s “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62” (on view through July 20). Taking in the museum’s first room, I immediately noticed that the pictures carried no didactic messages, were neither politically correct nor incorrect, and had no relation to racial or gender diversity. What a relief!
Similar to the abstract expressionist painters working in New York during the same period, these artists were primarily concerned with painting itself.