Joan Mitchell

Streaming now on our website, the latest episode of our conversation series, PROGRAM, explores the artist’s work via our recent exhibition Joan Mitchell Paintings: 1979?–?1985. The artist Amy Sillman, the art historian Erin Kimmel, and host Helen Molesworth examine the stylistic shifts on view in the show and debate how—or how not—to look at an abstract painting.

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“She [took] art history further than where it was going to go. Rather than interrupting it and just saying, ‘let’s critique the whole question of subjectivity,’ she [asked], ‘how can I make it even more crucial?’”
—Amy Sillman, artist