For roughly four years beginning in 2011, the art market’s insatiable appetite for a particular kind of painting—immortalized by critic Walter Robinson under the rubric of Zombie Formalism ...

Few esthetic questions have proved as vexing as the meaning of abstract art.For most of the 20th Century the idea has been that abstract art is removed from the ... This is the ”formalist” view.

Zombie Formalism, in other words, was in this view a new kind of court painting, ... But art flippers had an added advantage: the pump-and-dump, ...

If this latter, formalist view were to prevail, ... The Outsider Art Fair runs through Sunday at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, Chelsea; 212-337-3338, outsiderartfair.com.

Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week ...

Posted in Art Formalist Public Sculpture Takes Over Chicago’s Lakefront by Philip A Hartigan September 13, 2012 October 16, 2012. Subscribe to our newsletter. ... Is on View Now at MASS MoCA.