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"The Art of Romare Bearden" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.(Exhibition notes)(Critical Essay)

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"The Art of Romare Bearden" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. October 14, 2004-January 9, 2005

The Romare Bearden retrospective that Ruth Fine organized for the National Gallery of Art has now arrived at the Whitney Museum of American Art where it is playing to large, boisterous crowds--not surprisingly, for even in its rare dark moments, Bearden's is an art of powerful sensuality and considerable emotional uplift.

Although the show has traveled to two other cities since opening in Washington last fall and has still one stop remaining (the High Museum, beginning in January) there is something particularly appropriate about the Whitney as a ...

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