IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM By Joe Leduc Striving to explain to an interviewer why he continued to paint the same subject, an elderly Josef Albers proudly reached back to the exacting standard set at the beginning of modernism:…

THOMAS NASON @ THE FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM By Joe Leduc “You talk about the decay of New England. It’s a compost heap.” – Robert Frost to Donald Hall By the time of his death, the affinity between the prints of Thomas…