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Johnson's Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the...
One of man's greatest challenges is facing himself; in today's portraiture the encounter has become stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological...
Biographer as Surgeon. Soyer's group portrait is essentially a salute to the past, an evocation of his fellow realists and their combined debt to Eakins as the greatest painter in the American realist tradition. Soyer unabashedly searched the past for precedent, modeled his composition on Fantin-Latour'...
The only non-artist in the final painting is Lloyd Goodrich, director of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, who was included for his definitive biography of Eakins. He stands behind a table, paralleling the posture of the surgeon in Eakins' The Gross Clinic, over his shoulder...
The museum's attendance-45,000 on Sunday alone-might be honor enough, but Rorimer, nearing his tenth anniversary as director, is far from finished with his dreaming. Last week's fete will hardly be the Met's last supper. He announced plans for a $4,000...