Robert Linsley
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold has spent much of his career exploring variations of a formal theme: the interplay of line, frame and colour. This Albright-Knox show features four recent series of paintings and a group of studies for a public work, with emphasis on the two most recent painting series, Column Structures and Ring Images.
Cave Painting
There is not much paleolithic-looking work in this grouping of 27 artists, but what the show might have in common with those early stabs at the medium of painting is an exploration of what abstraction can represent.
Rothko/Giotto
Housed in a modest room in the Gemäldegalerie, this small exhibition nonetheless came equipped with a big catalogue, wall texts and a videoguide. It was substantial support for an exhibition made of only three works—Mark Rothko’s Reds No. 5 (1961) and Giotto di Bondone’s Death of the Virgin (ca. 1310) and Crucifixion (ca. 1315).