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...about the Bruins? Three straight one-goal games. What they need is a new stud up front, someone who really knows how to score. Do you think Wilt Chamberlain can skate...
...20th Century" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It contained some 230 works by 65 artists, spanning the period from 1913 to 1993. Among these were, as you might expect, quite a few of those black squares (Ad Reinhardt, 1913-67), crushed autos (John Chamberlain, born 1927) and Coca-Cola cans (Guess Who, 1928-87) spurned by the cultural critic of Beijing. And, again as you might expect, they are sympathetically, even rhapsodically treated in the catalog, written in part by the show's curators -- Christos Joachimides in Berlin and Norman Rosenthal, the exhibitions secretary...
...like The Mirror, 1966. It is his homage to Velazquez's Las Meninas. A young girl sits with her back to a large mirror, propped up behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition...
...WILT CHAMBERLAIN...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: 1 -- A View from Above by Wilt Chamberlain; 2 -- The Man Who Wasn't Maigret by Patrick Marnham (published May 1993); 3 -- Don Giovanni libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...