One Fine Show: ‘Patterns in Abstraction’ at the High Museum of Art

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

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All of art history can be viewed as one long conversation: ideas are proposed and then responded to, furthering the discussion as new ground is broken in the rhetoric. When it comes to contemporary art, we’re at one of those stalled points in the conversation where many of its former contributors have begun to look at their phones because it’s getting late. American folk art appeals at times like these because it seems to exist outside of the conversation and to offer a glance into........

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