Jo Baer, Dusk (Bands and End-Points), 2012. Oil on canvas, 86 5/8 × 118 1/8 in. (220 × 300 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Photograph by Gert Jan van Rooij Press From the Archives: ARTnews on Jo Baer By Lucy R. LippardMay 1972 One of the oldest participants in this year’s Whitney Biennial is Jo Baer, who, in the 1960s, developed a following for her minimalist canvases that often took the form of white monochromes bordered by a frame of black paint and a thin strip of color.The newer Whitney Biennial works are unusual for Baer. They feature what appear to be various art-historical scenes—some characters from a Picasso painting, a thinly painted landscape—mashed together, but they are, in their own way, still true to Baer’s quest to explore a very tough question: what makes a painting? Reviewing a show of five Baer works in the May 1972 issue of ARTnews, Lucy R. Lippard pondered something similar.Head to (opens in a new window) ARTnews to read the full review. Read More Journal View All Pace Publishing Jo Baer: Up Close in the Land of the Giants Feb 11, 2021 Films Jo Baer: The Risen / Originals Dec 18, 2020 Pace Live Between Images and Abstraction: A Conversation Among Artists Inspired by the Work of Jo Baer Dec 15, 2020 Essays Up Close in the Land of the Giants by Jo Baer Nov 06, 2020 Press — From the Archives: ARTnews on Jo Baer’s Beguiling Paintings, in 1972, Mar 24, 2017