A Woman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964

A woman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964. Photograph by Burt Glinn.

After the painting in this photograph was put on display at MoMA, one of the trustees promptly resigned his seat on the board.

What we see here is, of course, not Malevich's Black Square. It is an entirely monochrome canvas by the New York abstractionist Adolph, or Ad, Reinhardt, a champion of abstract expressionism. In the last ten years of his life Ad Reinhardt painted nothing but square canvases of pure black.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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A Woman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s