Barnett Newman

Episode No. 730 features author Amy Newman.

Newman is the author of Barnett Newman: Here a biography out this week from Princeton University Press. The book presents Newman as devoted to art but initially unsure of what a Newman would be, as a dedicated, almost blindered New Yorker, and as an artist intensely interested in what US art had to contribute to the US national and global project. Amazon and Bookshop offer Newman for around $40. (It will be available in the UK in January 2026. Amy Newman and Barnett Newman are not related.)

Newman is the author of the author of Challenging Art: "Artforum" 1962–1974 and the editor, with Irving Sandler, of Defining Modern Art: Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Works discussed on the program include:

• Black With Yellow (Euclidian Abyss), 1946-47;
• Onement I, 1948;
• Two Edges, 1948;
• Onement VI, 1953;
• Here I, 1950; and
• Broken Obelisk, 1963-69.

Instagram: Amy Newman, Tyler Green.