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Lance Esplund

Lance Esplund
Lance Esplund writes about art for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was US art critic for Bloomberg News and chief art critic for the New York Sun. He has taught studio art and art history at the Parsons School of Design and Rider University, and has served as visiting MFA critic at the New York Studio School. His essays have appeared in Art in America, Harper’s, Modern Painters, and The New Republic among others. Esplund lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Abstract Art Didn’t Begin with Picasso

On the 19th-Century Art Historian Who Saw It All
December 4, 2018  By Lance Esplund
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