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  • Additions
    • Addl citations beyond Binstock for pre-1970
    • Addl one-off biographical details
      • Involvement in founding of DC Arts Center and the Washington Project for the Arts
      • (?) Involvement in the protests surrounding the 1979 Artists Space exhibition by Donald Newman (this probably deserves its own article given its significance in the art world at the time)
      • Addl teaching positions: UMD (82-85) & Carnegie Mellon (85-89)
    • 20s: final series of late works (drapes, heavy impasto slices, watercolors, and tondos) (might not be necessary, but he sped up his production speed super intensely at the end and made a bunch of new works in previous styles)
    • mid-80s-early 90s: Stylistic transition from constructions with canvas (Chasers and "quilted" paintings) to constructions with painted and printed metal, wood, plastic --> transition to Slatts
    • 00s Slatts -> geometric paintings (Josef Albers-inspired), retrospective '05
    • Kreeger '98 + moving to new ways of making his metal/wood/plastic constructions (digital imaging, site-specific references to their placement)
    • Custom Road Slide
    • Ahab series (exploring white as a color, pre-White paintings)
    • Chasers series (final section in 70s) --> transition to quilted paintings
    • early 90s drop-off in media attention --> quoted analysis/criticism about both the factual aspect of the decline (steady # of solo shows outside of major art cities + lots of commissions - but significantly fewer "blockbuster" shows and media coverage, almost no group shows, etc.) and the narrative around/reasons for the decline (theories about post-black/conceptual art's rise, theories about the effects of a claimed overdetermination of the 80s narrative on his work that centered on its connections to African/African-American visual vernaculars, etc.)
    • 90s commissions (public & at least one notable private),
    • post-Kordansky resurgence details - venice, NMAAHC, lots of notice/demand, plus quoted analysis on the meaning/reason
    • pace gallery (speed of new shows, details of show w/ Williams/Edwards)
    • covid + hirshhorn
  • Edits/trimming/other
    • fully refactor notable works in pub. coll.
    • cut down on prose length and prep for individ. sections to be split (drapes, etc.)
    • trim references to individ. works, re-style & remove date references
  • Additional articles/splits
    • Binstock
    • Drape paintings, move most major drape installations here with more in-depth centralized analysis about their definition/composition/development/themes
      • Possibly one individual article for the most notable Drape (probably Seahorses and/or Autumn Surf, a surviving major early drape like A and the Carpenter, or Yves Klein Blue)
    • Black Paintings (?)
    • Dark as I Am (Composed) (?)
    • Slice paintings (?)
      • or the specific Martin Luther King series (?)
    • Public art by (everywhere I turn I'm finding another public sculpture in another random local government building, this needs its own page)
    • Works by (still ongoing)