Word: harte
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...DEBATE (PBS, June 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). "Resolved: The Cold War Is Not Coming to an End." Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. is joined by former Secretary of State and NATO chief Alexander Haig in arguing the pro side. Former presidential contenders George McGovern and Gary Hart disagree...
News Editor for This Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Brian R. Hecht '92 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Features Editors: Susan B. Glasser '90 Melissa R. Hart '91 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Photography Editor: Susan D. Wojcicki '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Steven M. Hopchick...
...THOMAS HART BENTON: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He said he wished his work could be exhibited in saloons, but the colorful, cantankerous Benton (1889-1975) is being honored in his centennial year not only with a biography and a PBS special but also with this full-dress retrospective in his native state. Featured: the stylized murals of American history and daily life for which he was best known. Through June...
...regionalist, Grant Wood, with a retrospective. Six years later, it is Benton's turn, with a show of some 90 works at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Curated by the museum's Henry Adams, who wrote the well-researched and highly readable accompanying biography, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, it will run until June 18, then travel to Detroit, New York and Los Angeles through July...
...Thomas Hart Benton is admirable for his cussedness and independence, but these qualities are no guarantee of good painting, as a 100th-anniversary show in Kansas City proves. Benton's stylized regionalist scenes, writhing with down- home figures in buckskins and gingham, are caricatured and pumped and tarted up until the eye wants to cry uncle...