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If you're in NY, this looks promising:

"Americans in Paris, at the Grey Art Museum’s airy new space on Cooper Square, evokes those days of cheap wine, curling cigarette smoke and the scent of postwar freedom. New York, despite its dynamism, had become an artistic tyranny, where Abstract Expressionist orthodoxies were proclaimed and enforced by the inquisitorial critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. Even the tiniest hint of figuration brought down accusations of apostasy; Willem de Kooning came in for a critical drubbing when he displayed his series of recognisable “Women”."

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