Fans of Mary Gabriel’s exquisite Ninth Street Women, which tells the story of the mid-century New York City art boom from the perspective of five exceptional female painters, will rejoice over Fierce Poise, the first major biography of Helen Frankenthaler. Nemerov organizes his unconventional take into 11 distinct moments from the 1950s — the decade when Frankenthaler (barely out of college) developed her technique of staining a canvas with turpentine and pigment, married fellow artist Robert Motherwell, and worked toward her first major exhibition. Moody and textured, Fierce Poise celebrates, and mimics, Frankenthaler’s sweetly explosive paintings. —Hillary Kelly
People gathered at a memorial mural painted outside the Cup Foods store on Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis where Floyd died at the hands of police. ] Minneapolis residents awoke Friday to assess the damage after a second night rioters ignited fires and looted stores all over the city, as peaceful protests turned increasingly violent in the aftermath the death of George Floyd during an arrest. Buildings on Lake Street were still burning Friday morning. brian.peterson@startribune.com
Minneapolis, MN
Friday, May 29, 2020
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