In Buffalo, the magisterial abstractions of Robert Motherwell
One does not usually think of art shows in terms of seasons, but the Robert Motherwell retrospective that opened last week at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo is certainly autumnal: a life's work fully matured, all its lights, smokes and fermentations distinct, its promises ripely fulfilled. The show, organized by Curator Douglas G. Schultz, is not a huge affair in proportion to the size of Motherwell's output. There are, in all, 93 paintings and collages to represent a man whose oeuvre must be ten or...