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...breathes, that squeaks and cracks in the beams of his house, that must be sacrificially burnt in the shape of old furniture that will not sell. Wood stands as a monument in the countryside, whether in the form of a massive tree or in tiny specks of black charcoal. Pierre loves it, is fascinated by the intricacies of its design, the grain that is smooth to the touch, in a way that he never has been by a woman's body. He broods over a glass of fizzling alka-seltzer about the use of plastics. "Soon wood will exist only...
What sounds like an excellent exhibition of modern masters is continuing, through February 9, at the Pucker/Safrai gallery at 171 Newbury Street. Works shown include linocuts, engravings and lithographs by Picasso; drawings of the human face and figure in ink, lithograph and charcoal by Matiss; and silk screen prints of Hundertwasser's Japanese woodcuts. There are also some lithographs by Chagall. A film, "Hundertwasser's Rainy Day," will be shown periodically in the course of the exhibit (Monday-Friday...
...design for Burdine's huge department store in Clearwater, Fla., for example, is a mixture of stark Bauhaus and glinting jewelry shop. The furnishings are so dark-charcoal-gray carpets, walls and ceilings-that shoppers focus exclusively on the carefully lighted merchandise. The scheme works too. Sales are booming, reports Burdine's chairman, Melvin Jacobs. Walker puts the message another way in the stenciled words on one of the paintings he does on the side: ARS GRATIA PECUNIAE-art for the sake of money...
...driver strained to see road patches that might be innocent potholes or pressure mines embedded in the highway. So far, no mines have turned up on A4, but the guerrillas have begun planting them on less secure roads, carefully masking the gouges in the paving with a layer of charcoal...
Harvey Quaytman, paintings and drawings, through Nov. 6. Charcoal and acrylic on board can be trendy mixed-media creations, but Quatyman's remain intellectual works. His simple geometric forms seem to move the color over the surface; the result is harmonious, one grasps it all at once--yet not static. Like a frozen waterfall, these paintings hold arrested motion that is just waiting to escape...