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Ad Reinhardt Black Paintings are the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Ultimate Abstraction

In the 1960s, the great abstractionist reveled in making absurdist pictures of (almost) nothing.

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(Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund ©2013 Estate of Ad Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London)

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