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PAINTERS OF THE BEAUTIFUL-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. "Cockney impudence," snorted Ruskin at Whistler's painting. Whistler sued and won. The arrows the Victorians flung at one another had more zing than their painting, which they tried to free from what they called the "claptrap" of emotions. Albert Moore, Charles Conder and Lord Leighton come close to succeeding; Whistler, fortunately, does not. Beauty without feeling, after all, is like being dressed up with no place to go. Some 30 works in various media. Through March...
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Ivory drums, carved canoe prows and paddles, dance shields and other ob jects from the Massim region of New Guinea. Also 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
...when Johnson was inaugurated last week as the state's 54th Governor, folks expected more of the same. They were surprised: Johnson's inaugural address was the epitome of moderation...
...KAMIHIRA-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Few artists use pure stagecraft more effectively or pack their interiors with such sultry silence as this Japanese-American figure painter. Twenty-one recent works include new excursions into landscape, inspirations of a trip through Spain. Through...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The museum's annual weather vane of the winds of contemporary U.S. art shows that nothing that gets into the vocabulary of painting ever gets out: realism in varieties from Social to Pop; expressionism in forms from New York abstract to the tough geometry of hard-edge painting; impressionism from still lifes to mental landscapes. Rather than prove that the wind blows strongest from any compass point, the Annual proves that it is rising everywhere. Through...