Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It's past closing time at the Fogg; its galleries, hung in the first thread of twilight, are deserted. Suddenly Seymour Slive, the museum's new director, throws himself into an exhibit just hung for a course in 18th-century French art. He stalks backwards, arms out-flung, palms raised...
The first stop for America's new refugees is a 500-acre wasteland on Guam's Orote Point, the site of an abandoned Japanese airbase from World War II. The mammoth refugee complex bulged with 40,000 people. The air is constantly filled with red dust kicked up...
IT'S LOT MORE interesting for a student to tackle something never tried before--and the works that come out of this are a lot more interesting, too. Walter Bender's color lithograph of Central Square. Rich Diamond's two large mobiles. Mykal Castro's abstract paintings in acrylic on...
Salt's adaptation follows West's novel closely in most of the plot details. It misses what is most crucial: West's tone of level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does...
"There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush For Avery was a great poet-inventer who had invented sonorities never seen...