Word: artistically
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...limited-edition The Rubinstein Collection (list price: $1,600) is perhaps the biggest box set ever devoted to a single artist. It contains 706 recordings made between 1928 and 1976, including most of the music of Chopin, three versions of the complete Beethoven piano concertos and plenty of chamber music, plus a 305-page booklet full of adoring essays by admiring colleagues, critics and relatives...
Though avid fans with cash to spare will want to spring for the full set, others interested in hearing a major artist at the peak of his powers should stand by for the release of individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...
DIED. ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, 87, artist and iconic Conde Nast editorial director who set the style and tone for Vogue and Vanity Fair--and inspired the industry to treat magazines as minor cultural jewels; in Miami. His Expressionist work appeared in the Whitney and Guggenheim museums...
...autumnal; a pure buzz of nature's prodigious, generative force. And then, just one floor below, is this: a towering partition plastered with Warhol's hot pink and green wallpaper covered with cows' heads, like an advertisement for milk gone mad. On it, in clashing hues, is the artist's portrait of Elvis, gun drawn, off register, multiplied by four like a drunken vision. He stares you down, that famously curling lip, with all the swagger and pow of Pop's sardonic message: how a world of glossy goods and superstars is way more gripping than the prayerful...
...moment of the Warhol Effect was back, inspirited by the cash of the swelling Wall Street plutocracy that seemed to live inside the Pop artist's reverie of an endless spree of sensations and spectacles acquired, used up and instantly replaced. This is not to say that work harkening to the spiritual, to quieter introspection, wasn't being done. Such abstract artists as Bill Jensen, Sean Scully and Christopher Wilmarth were making some of their best work, but their belief in the poetic possibilities of doubt were no longer the currency...