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Capsule Art Reviews: “Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976,” “Nan Goldin: Stories Retold,” “Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,” “Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome”

“Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976” It’s difficult to look at a Robert Ryman painting without an initial feeling of being cheated. The artist has limited himself almost entirely to the color white as a way of boiling down the essence of painting to a reduced process, the very act of…

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