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When Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered a set of cream-colored Queen's Ware like the one that Josiah Wedgwood had made for Queen Charlotte (cost: £52), he wanted her to have something better. So he had the 952-piece set decorated with 1,244 hand-painted views...
At the ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art): Catherine Murphy, through May 27th. The consciously mundane reality Murphy sees is so empty that it is disturbing. The meticulous technique of these paintings challenge the viewer to find a meaning, any meaning.
In Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art is showing paintings which prove our world aesthetically meaningless. Catherine Murphy's scenes of cities and suburbs we all know only too well are absolutely unbeautiful and have absolutely nothing to say. Except that there is frighteningly little that is lovely in the...
Catherine's doctor father (Richard Kiley) is a sardonic man who resents his daughter bitterly. To him, Catherine is an aching reminder that his wife died in giving birth to her. He violently opposes the match. Having diagnosed Townsend's intentions, the doctor is quite unconcerned about the...
When Townsend realizes that the girl will be disinherited if she marries, he jilts her. After the doctor dies, Townsend renews his suit, and Catherine, now grown into a confirmed, cynical spinster, pretends to accede in order to have the revenge of a woman scorned and to jilt him in...