The first retrospective in 30 years on the immensely influential abstractionist, theorist, art-world scourge and forefather of Minimalism The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in Europe, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else illustrates Ad Reinhardts tremendous influence on Abstract Expressionism as well as subsequent contemporary art styles. Reinhardts paintings are rarely representational and are instead composed of geometrics and eventually only color: canvases of all red, all blue, all black. Organized with the institutional support of the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, this catalog includes a selection of approximately 50 paintings and works on paper, spanning Reinhardts career from early drawings, paintings and collages to later works characterized by a progressive reduction of color and formAnother focal point of the volume is Reinhardts passions and artistic pursuits beyond painting, including his s