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...outweighing even MOMA's Picasso catalog by 11 oz. It isn't a show to approach casually, even if the coming box-office jam allowed it. But Elderfield's panorama of Matisse's achievement is so exhilarating, so full of rapturous encounters with one of the grandest pictorial sensibilities ever to pick up a brush, so steady in its narrative line and -- not incidentally -- so sensitively hung, that even if you go in with a certain foreboding, you come out walking on air and longing to start right over again...
...multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned by Issey Miyake...
...PLACE IS CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...
TURANDOT. Puccini's grandest, chilliest opera gets a new production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago that ought to warm the pageantry up considerably. Sets are by artist David Hockney, who usually finds the animation and wit in any project he undertakes. Performances Jan. 11 through...
...Records). A card-carrying classic; not only the definitive Christmas house shaker but also a paradigm of Wagnerian rock at its most ingenuous. From the Ronettes melting the heart of Frosty the Snowman to Darlene Love's soul-scorching Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), this is Phil Spector's grandest production...