The most understated art show of this or any recent year must be the retrospective of paintings by Robert Ryman now on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Robert Storr, it covers about 40 years of this American painter's work: a parade of 83 mostly white paintings on entirely white walls, with nary a label or a number to break the chaste spell of Ryman's strikingly unoxygenated imagination. (It was a good curatorial idea not to have wall labels, since anything verbal would have trapped the vacillating eye of any but the most determined Ryman fan....
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