"'Action/Abstraction,' at the Jewish Museum, is more a perambulatory essay than an art exhibition, though it incorporates some superb pieces: classic paintings by the rival godheads of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and fine works by other members of American art's greatest generation (notably Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still)." (New Yorker) This essay illuminates the vastly influential American art work derived from the 1950s which is on display at the Jewish Museum's "Action/Abstraction" art exhibit. In addition to the previously mentioned contributors, "Action/Abstraction" will also play host to the works of Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Arshile Gorky. "The New York avant-garde art world of the nineteen=fifties consisted of about two hundred and fifty artists and a couple of dozen critics, curators, dealers, and collectors."