Frank Stella—the most influential painter of his generation—shifted the art world away from Abstract Expressionism and toward Minimalism. “The Black Paintings didn’t make me well known,” Stella has said, “they made me notorious.” This show, pulled from LACMA’s permanent collection, presents works pivotal, definitive, and notorious (some of which haven’t seen light in over 30 years). —E.C.
Frank Stella: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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