Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE A ONE-EYED CAT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE FRIEDLANDER 1956-1987, Seattle Art Museum. Surprising perspectives on everyday images -- street scenes, jazz musicians, empty motel rooms, public monuments -- by a modern American master. Through...
TREASURES FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Highlights of the collection built up by British connoisseurs over two centuries at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam, including paintings by Titian, Rubens and Delacroix, manuscripts, ceramics, sculpture and decorative arts. Through June...
GUIDO RENI, 1575-1642, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Underappreciated in the modern era, Reni is restored in this choice, 50-painting show to the high rank earlier centuries accorded him as luminous colorist and elegant classical stylist. Through...
...sinking was a sharp blow to the Soviet navy. The prototype sub represented state-of-the-art Soviet design, impressive enough to prompt concern in Washington that U.S. superiority in undersea warfare might be imperiled. The Mike-class vessel was put in service in 1984 and was the only one of its class afloat. Experts believe it was used to test new design and propulsion features. The sinking marked at least the fifth such Soviet loss in 30 years. In the most recent major disaster, a Yankee-class Soviet sub burned and sank in the Atlantic in October 1986. Three...
...blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid staging and from...