Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brushwork and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...
MASTERWORKS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington. Some 65 of the renowned glassmaker's most vibrant lamps, vases and windows. The ultimate glass act! Sept. 29 to March...
...notion of indexing gains to inflation -- to tax only "real" gains -- would add a whole new level of complication in computing taxes. And is it fair? It insulates those with real estate and stocks and fine art from the effects of inflation but not those without appreciable assets, whom inflation hits hardest. (Homeowners already have big tax breaks. They're allowed to roll gains tax-free from one home to the next and, at 55, avoid tax altogether on $125,000.) Furthermore, insulating voters from inflation makes them more tolerant of it and thus its rise more likely...
...ART: Velazquez, master of cool objectivity...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts the first U.S. exhibition of work by a Spanish genius who was "as radical as reality itself...