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...Bang is arranged according to eight themes, from "archaism" to "war," plus some 40 subthemes. Its organizers believe that such interdisciplinary shuffles are part of a veritable art revolution. "Contemporary artists are trying to escape academic categories," says Catherine Grenier, the show's curator. "They don't think in chronological terms. They don't want to be classified in one movement. They are not so interested in history?they want to create their...
...accent the positive, saying that the huge spaces in Tate Modern's home, a former power station, presented an opportunity "to explore the strengths of the collection." Those experiments were being closely watched at the Pompidou, France's National Museum of Modern Art. While appreciating their thematic approaches, Grenier felt that MOMA and Tate had simply given updated names to academic definitions. "The organization was still the same," she says. "It was portrait, it was landscape, it was history. And it was not really satisfactory...
...Grenier says that the response to the exhibit from the artists, the professionals hanging the works and from the public has been "incredibly good"?visitors are spending longer with the permanent collection than ever before. "What could have been an incoherent jumble is as tightly structured as a Swiss watch," wrote Richard Dorment of Britain's Daily Telegraph...
...Pompidou seems to be looking for such middle ground. "The idea of a thematic show is not automatically against the idea of chronology," Grenier says. "We can mix them." The enthusiastic response to the current installation suggests there will be no going back when the Pompidou reopens all its floors in 2007, its 30th anniversary. Already the curators have been asked to propose alternatives. This unexpected change in Pompidou philosophy, Grenier says, "is the real Big Bang...
...effort to bring his government back on course, Mulroney is expected to reshuffle some Cabinet jobs. To replace Blais-Grenier and to continue to assure French-speaking Canadians that their voices are heard at Cabinet sessions, he will probably give at least one more important portfolio to a French speaker. He intends moreover to sell off other unprofitable government corporations, even if such sales cause some local and, he hopes, temporary unemployment...