Word: artists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FREDERICK KIESLER, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Kiesler (1890-1965), a visionary artist-architect-designer, is seen in all his guises in this gathering of drawings, sculptures, architectural plans and models, furniture and paintings. Through April...
MARC CHAGALL, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The only North American showing of this first major retrospective since the artist's death in 1985. More than 150 paintings, gouaches and drawings. Through...
...since "there is little broad knowledge of science even among educated people." Granted, but does one need to know what thermal inversion is in order to function as a literate member of society? Similarly, would a science major feel a driving need to recognize that John Constable was an artist...
...earthy man, crazy about women, convinced of his own historical mission -- thought he was the painter of his time. His egotism still grates. What school did he belong to? "I am Courbetist, that's all. My painting is the only true one. I am the first and unique artist of the century; the others are students or drivelers...
...charges are not trivial, and neither is the challenge. At issue is the freedom of a filmmaker -- or any artist -- to twist the facts as they are recalled, to shape the truth as it is perceived. May a movie libel the historical past? And has Mississippi Burning done so? Artistic liberty vs. social responsibility: the stakes are high. The memories are indelible. The battle lines are drawn...