Americans in Paris

Americans in Paris: Article
“Best New York City Art Shows of 2024”
Hyperallergic, December 12, 2024

Our staff and contributors look back on the city’s year in art, from blockbusters to under-the-radar art heroes and unsung histories. 2024 was a bustling year for art in New York, with blockbuster exhibitions at museums, museum-level shows at galleries — especially a few new, nearly museum-sized galleries in Tribeca, the city’s reigning art hub […]

Americans in Paris: Article
“Things to do in Boston this weekend”
Boston Globe, September 4, 2024

by Globe Staff AMERICANS IN PARIS: ARTISTS WORKING IN POSTWAR FRANCE, 1946-1962 This exhibition sketches a nascent movement of American artists in Europe at thefoundation of late American Modernism: Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, JackYoungerman, to name but a few. With 135 works by approximately 70 artists, the showboth looks back and projects forward to the […]

Americans in Paris: Article
“Coming Attractions: September 3 through 16 — What Will Light Your Fire”
Arts Fuse, September 3, 2024

Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. Visual Arts Several New England Museums have been on summer vacation this year. They begin opening their doors again right after Labor Day. The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover reopens […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“Paintings About Painting”
Real Clear Books & Culture, June 18, 2024

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. […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“Paintings about painting”
The New Criterion, June 14, 2024

by Pat Lipsky 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 […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“The Big Disconnect”
Tussle Magazine, June 9, 2024

by Gwenaël Kerlidou Earlier this winter, several galleries have presented the work of a few French painters who have recently elicited interest in the New York art world. Among them, in January, the Timothy Taylor Gallery showed works by Simon Hantaï in Tribeca, while in Chelsea, in March, the Matthew Marks Gallery exhibited a series […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“‘Brilliant Exiles’: American Women In Early 20th-Century Paris”
Forbes, May 18, 2024

by Chadd Scott What the American men of the so-called “Lost Generation”–Hemingway, Fitzgerald, that crowd–couldn’t find in early 20th century Paris, their female counterparts did. In abundance. Purpose. Love. Fulfillment. Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, American women such as Josephine Baker (1906–1975), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), and Augusta Savage (1892–1962) left the States […]

Americans in Paris: Article
“Americans in Paris Artists: Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962″
NYCArts, May 10, 2024

Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. “Americans in Paris” explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more during the period from 1946 to 1962. […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review<br>“The Lure of the City of Light”<br>The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2024

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“The Lure of the City of Light”
The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2024

Exhibitions examine how artists before and after World War II found inspiration and artistic freedom in the French capital by Willard Spiegelman ‘WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS,” Bogart said to Bergman in “Casablanca” (1943). Now, two current art exhibitions explore the powerful appeal of the City of Light to generations of 20th-century Americans. At New York […]

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review<br>“Over 100 works by expat artists who sought an escape from stateside restrictiveness in postwar France”<br>4Columns, May 3, 2024

Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“Over 100 works by expat artists who sought an escape from stateside restrictiveness in postwar France”
4Columns, May 3, 2024

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, curated by Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Museum, 18 Cooper Square, New York City, through July 20, 2024 by Aruna D’Souza In a 1960 interview, the abstract painter Mark Tobey, after years of living in Paris, where he achieved acclaim from the otherwise […]