Art: Pyramid

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By the end of the show, one has been given rather too much. A wearying amount of second-rate work from the '50s and '60s has been included for its imagery alone, and much of it is Kosmic Komix decor. Some artists, like Ellsworth Kelly, come out looking like resolute materialists whose pared-down insistence on the autonomy of formal means suggests no "spiritual" aspect (as defined by the earlier parts of the show) at all. But this is a brave curatorial labor all the same, a stimulating and important move in the general rereading of modern art that is so much a part of the '80s. By R. H.