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Asking Jules Olitski “What’s it like to be forgotten?”: the great colourist and the whims of fate

Clement Greenberg said he was “the greatest painter” alive; then in the 70s the world stopped talking about Jules Olitski

Construction-mania: Our choice of New York contemporary galleries

And a group of exhibitions, about Duchamp, Balthus and Basquiat, coincides with new art book releases this autumn

New Warhol exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum

The major show chronicles the many faces of Warhol's fascination with fame

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News from New York: All is flux

Ex-Sotheby’s David Nash opens as dealer, Paula Cooper relaunches, and Rauschenberg flirts with PaceWildenstein

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Contemporary art worth $5 million donated to MoMA

The gift was made by New York millionairess Elaine Dannheisser, who says her collection contains “a lot of tough art”

Elizabeth Murray curates MoMA exhibition of women Modernist artists

This feminist show is the fifth of the museum's artist-curated exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection

First American Basquiat retrospective to be held at the Whitney

Whitney director, David Ross, gambles on his political correctness

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A flood of pictures for MoMA as collector William S. Paley dies

The bequest, one of the largest in the museum's history, includes three of Gertrude Stein’s Picassos