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It is Diego who makes the grand statements, the grand gestures: "Art is for the common man," he declares. His vision for it is neither pretty nor sexy. "You wouldn't fuck a pyramid, but that doesn't mean it's not art," he bellows.
The common image of a U.S. Secretary of State is that of Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance, James Baker -- a suave Wasp lawyer, slender and urbane, who probably rowed at Yale or Princeton. But Lawrence Eagleburger, the new Acting Secretary, looks like the Michelin man with a cane. He once had...
ART The elemental, visceral power of George Bellows 68
The Armory Show -- Bellows' first sight of modern European painting en masse -- seems to have provoked the change that came over his work after 1914. Actually, Bellows was given to sudden shifts of style, but as the art historian Michael Quick points out in the show's useful catalog, his...
Unfortunately, it did his art no good. Bellows went for the pedantic structure and managed to annul the immediate and visceral character of his best work. Hence the generally tedious commissioned portraits and the stilted "refinement" of his late salon pieces like Two Women, 1924. His labored attempts at old...