91. This was a time of great experimentation with printmaking techniques by first-rate American artists, and the results are often arresting in their ambition. 92. To bestow such an honor on a black American artist in the middle of the civil rights movement was a powerful statement. 93. Tried and true American artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly are exactly what collectors want right now. 94. Tocqueville had a theory about why American artists might be prone to abandon the great to reach the gigantic. 95. We have also given shows to many American artists. 96. When the Beatles hold a press conference to kick off their Apple record label and company, a journalist asks who their favorite American artist is. 97. What is new in the cultural exchange is the desire and ability of American artists to perform in Cuba. 98. When the American artist Donald Judd died a year ago this month, he was in his prime, though it would not have seemed that way. 99. While conservators working on Old Master paintings have discovered concealed paintings beneath a canvas, finding a hidden painting of an American artist is particularly unusual. 100. Whether one or the other, or both, he has been written up and torn down more than practically any other American artist in the last few years. |