Barkley L. Hendricks’s paintings shine with a kind of affect that one is inclined to call “beautiful.” And, indeed, they are. Yet they are loaded with something too tense, too bristling with heat to fit neatly into such a definition: something else is here, too.
Robert Adams obsession with the decay and beauty of the American landscape is on display at the National Gallery s exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams."