Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full of holes, have sold for as much as $260,000. To kick off celebrations for his 80th birthday, London's Tate Gallery last week invited Moore and 80 of his special friends to dinner and proudly showed off a prize acquisition: 36 Moore sculptures donated by the artist. Across town, Moore mania also reigned in Kensington Gardens, where Londoners flocked to see a new, permanent display of his works. "A sculpture is like a person and you must treat it like one. You must put it in its best environment, like a person," says Moore. "That...
...portrait endures like a retinal image after the lights are turned off, at once romantic and classical: the artist as stoic...
...left last night for two games in Yankee Stadium and four games in Baltimore before returning to Fenway for another pair against the pinstripers next Monday and Tuesday. Dennis Eckersley (7-2) goes against ailing change-up artist Andy Messersmith (0-1) tonight on the Monday Night Game of the Week (8 p.m., Channel 5). Rookie Jim Wright (3-1 will face unbeatable-as-yet Ron Guidry (12-0) in the series finale...
...outside world is breaking in. It is a very funny and slightly poisonous image of paranoia. But it also has a lot to say about how frail privacy is (can the creature be, in fact, an artist: Westermann himself?) and how vulnerable are the fictions that art erects...
...value of this retrospective is that it lets us see how the desire for an unimperiled wholeness in the face of a world perceived as menacing can supply an artist of Westermann's gifts with an apparently endless range of subjects and motifs. Inventiveness, we are reminded, is one of the strategies of survival itself...