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NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM PRESENTS ‘HIGH TIMES, HARD TIMES” FEB. 15

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NEW YORK CITY — The National Academy Museum presents “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967–1975” bringing together more than 40 significant works by 37 artists living and working in New York between 1967 and 1975. Opening on February 15, the groundbreaking works in this exhibition were created by painters who crossed disciplines to take a nontraditional approach to the medium.

“High Times, Hard Times” also reflects the impact on the art world of the civil rights struggle, student and antiwar activism, and the beginning of feminism. The works included in this exhibition represent some of the most experimental art of the time. These artists’ reexamination of art through new approaches to the medium of painting was very much in keeping with the era’s radical aesthetics and politics.

The works in the exhibition are divided into groups that are at once formal and chronological. The works in the first group, dating from the late 1960s are large, rectangular, stretched canvases hung on the wall, a format based on conventions challenged later in this exhibition, to elicit the mood of euphoria and optimism so prevalent in the late sixties.

The museum is at 1083 Fifth Avenue. For information, www.nationalacademy.org or 212-369-4880.