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Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in “Pretty Raw” and demolish the majority of them.
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Visual Arts Commentary: Expanding Abstraction — What’s So Narrow About That?
Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.
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