Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pact between his secret language and one's own fantasies. The carnivorous or petrified landscapes, the enchanted pencil forests, the enigmatic rooms in which sinister things happen-these constitute a world on the other side of the mirror, access to which depends on an involuntary conspiracy with the artist...
...Titled La Côte Basque, 1965 and taken from his unpublished novel Answered Prayers, the piece focused on a posh Manhattan restaurant and its haul monde clientele. For his cast, Capote chose some old acquaintances, including Jacqueline Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor pane" in a cathedral window. But many of his cronies considered it a major pain in the neck and accused Capote of betraying their confidences. "The reaction...
...have been talking about doing a portrait of him for a couple of years," disclosed Painter Jamie Wyeth after unveiling his version of Pop Artist Andy Warhol last week. Wyeth, who tracked Warhol down to his Manhattan lair two months ago, found his model an "excellent" subject. "He has an incredible childlike quality," observed Jamie. "He was very concerned that I would use too much red in his skin, or show up a pimple." Warhol, who refuses to hang separately, has already snapped off a batch of Polaroid pictures of Wyeth. The patriarch of pop plans to have his counterpart...
...something of greater interest-a painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted in 1626 when Rembrandt was only 19, the 25-in. by 19-in. discovery depicts the baptism of an Ethiopian courtier by Deacon Philip, as recounted in Acts 8. Defoer, 39, declined to name the painting's last owner or the purchase...
...trashes the sculpture. Works that need to be walked around and experienced in three dimensions are stranded on ledges and behind glass, so that they can only be seen frontally. When this is inflicted on pieces like the exquisite (and much underrated) cubist sculptures of John Storrs, an artist who should have been rehabilitated by the show, it borders on vandalism. Harsh blasts of light transmute rows of neoclassical and Victorian marbles into white soap. A group of David Smiths is gussied up with a 50-ft. photomural of what purports to be, but is not, the landscape around...