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The California 1930s Frat-Rush-Week Esthetic: On the First American Gutai Show, in 1958
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Even as rising rents drive Chelsea galleries to eye real estate in other parts of Manhattan, the Upper East Side gallery McCaffrey Fine Art is expanding into 9,000 square feet at 508 West 26th Stree…
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Museum and gallery shows on Mono-ha, Gutai, and other avant-garde movements in Japan from the '50s onward are shedding new light on an era previously unknown to the West
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