The article in the New Yorker by Simon Schama, I believe, does
     indeed profess to put Mondrian in a new light. His thesis is,
     more or less, that Mondrian is not the bauhausian, mechanistic
     painter as he has been portrayed (and I have to say that this
     might not be how Mondrian is typically perceived, but its how the
     writer portrays Mondrian's reputation. Not being up on the
     literature -- in other words being totally ignorant -- I
     couldn't say.) Instead, the New Yorker piece suggests that the
     new show (at the Whitney? boy my ignorance really is showing!)
     presents a painterly, sensualist Mondrian who reinvented himself
     several times. It's a very compelling review, very positive, but
     I have no idea if it is a "new angle" on mondrian. I'd been under
     the impression, by the way, that mondrian had only one angle, and
     that was 90 degrees.

     Sorry.

     Eric Siegel
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