Simon Hantai - The New York Times

Art Review: Commentary That's Both Visual and Vocal

By Karen Rosenberg

July 1, 2010


"At this stage of the exhibition, the dearth of painting becomes hard to ignore. It’s remedied soon enough, with dueling stripes by Daniel Buren and Agnes Martin and a mesmerizing multicolored abstraction by Simon Hantai. Let the others have their Minimalism and institutional critique; the only theory in Mr. Hantai’s 'Untitled (Suite ‘Blancs’),' made by painting exposed parts of a crumpled canvas, is string theory."

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