“To call Steinberg cynical would be wrong. Always taking the wide view, he portrayed humans as small but not inconsequential creatures. His paper bag masks are not portraits but timeless types. His 1950s series of people sketched onto photographs of city streets and directly onto the walls of apartment interiors (displayed on Pace’s second floor) shows them as the unassuming heirs of civilization. His stamped masses have a bold permanence, even as, around them, history marches on.”