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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where a painting might have been, museum staff members hung a blank black canvas.

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Art Centers Mark Day For AIDS Awareness | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

One of her earliest memories was of "the light -- light all around." Georgia O'Keeffe spent her life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

About the timetable, at least, there were few arguments: at 8 a.m. last Tuesday, a line of jeeps and canvas-covered military trucks roared up Avenue A in Panama City and disgorged armed troops at the headquarters of the Panama Defense Forces. The soldiers joined 200 others stationed there, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yanquis Stayed Home | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Still, it is the objectivity that seizes you. Was there ever a painter less interested in thrusting his "personality" at the viewer? He is the absolute antitype of the hot, expressive artist. His cool gaze settles on everything with equal curiosity: he is as interested in the way a formidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Velazquez's Binding Ethic | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

It gets us nowhere to think that Cubism was meant as a form of realism. That * is what art historians like Douglas Cooper thought -- Cubism aimed for "the solid tangible reality of things" by representing them from several angles. But "solid tangible reality" is hardly detectable in this show. You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Adam and Eve of Modernism | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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