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Nouhan has made deals with customers proffering jewelry, TV sets and freezers. When one man showed up with a 1947 singleengine, canvas-covered aircraft, Nouhan sportingly went along for a test ride, then accepted the plane as a trade-in for $1,300. After the flight, Nouhan learned to his...
Historical Fumes. Martin Butlin, keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery, points out in the catalogue that Turner's cataclysms were meant to replace the older European tradition of personified myth-wrathful Zeus and so forth-and thus they moralize nature itself. Turner, a self-taught man...
The Middle East as Naked Canvas
IF A PAINTER assembled his easel in the resonant cranny of a shop's front door at Harvard Square, the wet thud of soused camel's hair as his paintbrush hit the canvas propped on its tripod probably wouldn't pull a crowd. Unlike musicians or actors, someone who makes...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for...