For art critic Louisa Buck, the Tate exhibition represents a trend that is about "attempting to escape being a commodity.
Drawn from the museum's permanent collection and beautifully installed by Carter Foster, a Whitney curator, the exhibition samples a trend in American art that was dominant from the 1920s to the early 1950s.
The exhibition follows the current trend of attributing all three works simply to a "Central Italian Painter".
"The trend of exhibition design in the late 60's was to block out light and to create a mysterious, dark environment," said David Harvey, vice president for exhibition.
From one angle, it is one more sign of a dismaying trend toward exhibitions dominated by a historical or cultural theme, the more sensational the better.
This rededication of exhibition space reflects a solid trend in youthful precincts of the art world: fannies in chairs, voting for real events in real time.
The approach taken in putting this exhibition together underscores a general trend whereby similarities in content are considered above similarities in style.
The Gagosian exhibition folds into a revisionist trend centered on Frankenthaler's work, seen also in last year's Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, at the Rose Art Museum.
The Clippers have been outrebounded in all three exhibition games, continuing a troubling trend from last season.
NO TREND, an ongoing exhibition at the New York outpost of the Ace Hotel, showcases the work of seven talented skaters who are artists, too.
