Influential American Art Critic Barbara Rose Dies | Culture

Barbara Rose, historian, curator and influential art critic, passed away last Friday, Christmas Day, in Concord, the capital of the northern state of New Hampshire. With her goes one of the most influential voices on the American scene between the sixties and nineties, a charismatic and daring woman in a world and a time that took its toll on female ambition. An article of hers is attributed in part to the definition of minimalism, a movement whose existence she herself questioned in her later years. It was a free verse that was part of a unique community of artists in the …

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