The Best Art of 2017

"Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings" at the David Zwirner Gallery, which brought together 28 luminous abstract paintings from this artist’s early-1950s "blue period"—the most ever. With blue fields layered with levitating blocks, or intersecting beams of contrasting blues and sometimes greens or purples, these immersive paintings evoked geometric versions of Monet’s "Water Lilies."

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