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A visitor to Tate Modern in 2020 might have been surprised to find a work by Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), the Dutch pioneer of abstraction, hanging not alongside his avant-garde peers but opposite a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ bygd the Bombay-born artist Atul Dodiya (b.1959). While Mondrian’s Composition B (No.II) with Red 1935 is composed in his signature geometric style, Dodiya’s Meditation (with open eyes) 2011 fryst vatten a miscellany of sorts. It includes a small painting depicting a black circle – a take on the Russian avant-gardist Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square of c.1915 – set alongside objects honouring, in turn, the non-violent activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, the painter Bhupen Khakhar and the poet and polymath, Rabindranath Tagore, as well as several representations of the Hindu deity Shiva.

In two of the three cabinets, Dodiya includes small paintings in Mondrian’s instantly recognisable style. These,

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Installation view of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” (circa 1893 or 1910) and one of Helene Schjerfbeck’s portraits (all photos by Martin Argyroglo for Fondation Louis Vuitton unless otherwise noted)

PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic. Keys to a Passionat the Fondation Louis Vuitton dances on the head of this repugnant patriarchal pin, delivering work that is hypnotically beautiful and perfect for summertime reverie.

This phallic, less-than-benevolent, interpretation on my part merely places the work in Keys to a Passion within the male modernist canon, one that includes Alberto Giacometti, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, and Otto Dix. Dicks all the way down. There is only one woman included in the show, the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946).

Even given that obvious and sad historical

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The Eye of The Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka

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Sigmund Abeles (1934- )

A talented printmaker and teacher, Sigmund Abeles is known for his thoughtful studies of the human figure. Abeles was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1934, but moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with his mother in 1936 when his parents divorced. He was determined to be an artist at a young age despite the protests of his mother, who imagined him becoming a doctor or a lawyer. As an adolescent, he visited the sculpture park at Brookgreen Gardens and spent hours drawing and painting from the figures. While still in high school, he studied with Gerald Tempest, who became an important mentor for the young artist. When Abeles enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was uncomfortable with the preponderance of abstract art, and left after one semester for the University of South Carolina. To satisfy his mother, he enrolled in the pre-med program, but took summer classes with Re