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...black box, bare except for a suggestion of a tenement apartment in one corner. The most conspicuous element is a red-spattered door through which someone always seems to be bursting. Among many harsh white lights that glare down on the action, the most striking is a long thin strip at the back wall that hints of someone peering in from behind. This Crime and Punishment is equally about the social injustices of the old Russia and the arrogance of the new Soviet state, and finds a continuity between them in their lack of Christian charity and love. (Lyubimov...
...have been growth years for new museums across America, and nowhere more so than in Los Angeles. The end of 1986 saw a variety of art institutions either up or growing amid the sprawl of freeways. The most newsy, which opened early in December to a white glare of publicity faintly shaded with apprehension, is the Museum of Contemporary Art, known by its acronym MOCA. It was closely preceded by the $35 million Robert O. Anderson building, a new wing intended to see the city's chief museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA, for short), into...
...meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights. Entropy set in the moment it opened...
...There is no one else out there for me." Both blared that they were not doing it for the money. Still, the green spoke pretty loudly too. The guaranteed $23 million purse (twelve for Hagler, eleven for Leonard) is the largest in boxing history. And away from the media glare, the Great Adversaries sounded more like cozy capitalists than fuming pugilists. "Marvin asked me about my restaurant," reports Leonard. "I asked him about his sports shop...
...done in two three-hour sprints, since Haring was technically trespassing and could have been arrested by East German border guards at any moment. "They had binoculars trained on me, cameras clicking practically the whole time, and then their heads appeared over the top of the wall to glare at me at point-blank range," said Haring. "I tell you, it was a bit scary." Not a comment to be taken lightly from someone who got his start painting in the New York City subway system...