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Most artists, one imagines, dream of achieving a great late style -- the uprush and resolution in old age, careless of aesthetic risk, sometimes even a little mad, that carry a life's effort into profundity. Few, obviously, manage anything of the sort. The retrospective of paintings by Lucian Freud, 71, which opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, sets before...
...Freud's new work at full stretch, one need only look at the final painting in the show, finished just last month (too late for the catalog): Evening in the Studio. It shows the inside of the artist's London workplace, a medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant...
...Wittgenstein" at 7:30 and 9 p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century's most influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led an extremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born in the Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwig was a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Wittgenstein" at 4, 7:30 and 9 p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century's most influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led an extremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born in the Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwig was a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Wittgenstein" at 4, 7:30 and 9p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century'smost influential philosophers. Wittgenstein led anextremely dramatic, unconventional life. Born inthe Vienna of Freud and Schoenberg, young Ludwigwas a schoolmate of Adolf Hitler...