Word: giftedness
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DOUBTLESS much of what was featured at the Whitney was undertaken in the spirit of passionate commitment to art and its future. But no one has any way of knowing that for sure. When Duchamp declared nothingness he sought to free art from the conventions and limitations that had burdened...
The reader may feel at this point that what he needs is not zwieback but a drink. There is no shortage of wry, clever novels by and about overwrought young mothers. And initially this unassuming first novel by Johanna Davis seems to be a fairly conventional example of obstetrical fiction...
The Way They Are Sir / Thank you for your portrayal of gifted children [June 4] as the majority of them really are ("a thoroughly natural child," "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden," "you can't do everything") and not as we usually see them depicted...
The case may be the stiffest test yet of Lloyd's powers of survival. But then, he is an exceptionally gifted survivor. Frank Lloyd was born in Vienna in 1911. His name was Franz Levai; his father was a well-off dealer in antique furniture, silver and china. At...
There is, for instance, a whole group of bullfighters whose shapes, except for a brusque vitality of placement that was always Picasso's hallmark and never quite left his fist, might almost have been produced by David Stein, Elmyr de Hory, or some other moderately gifted faker. Every artist...