We can’t say it better than this: “The career of Joan Mitchell, who once likened Clement Greenberg to a ‘toilet seat,’ ought to remind us of how tribal the art world continues to be. There are those who want to belong to clubs and acquire the proper affiliations, and there are others who don’t or can’t belong to anything of the sort, even the cliques that would gladly welcome them. Academics are fond of repeating that Mitchell was ‘a second generation’ Abstract Expressionist, as if that were the clubhouse she wanted to enter, and got stuck in.” But there’s a lot more. – Hyperallergic