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...fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Returning to the Frame Game | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell ill and had to be evacuated by Bush Pilot Sheldon. Soon she. was back, not knowing that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing I heard yesterday was a robin. Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Homesteading | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...Palazzo Grassi: paintings by Klimt and Schiele, furniture by Hoffman and Moser, posters, stage designs, textiles, jewelry, ceramics by dozens of artists both famous and obscure. Apart from Venice itself, this is the main reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gliding over a Dying Reef | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...Hodgkin paints small, and his work combines the intimate with the declamatory. Every image seems to be based either on a room with figures or a peep into a garden from a window, and is regulated by layered memories of conversation, sexual tension and private jokes. But this is conveyed by an extraordinary blooming, spotting, bumbling and streaking of color, an irradiation of the mildly anecdotal by the aggressively visual. The small size of Hodgkin's canvases puts a high premium on their quality of touch (which rarely falters), but the color counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gliding over a Dying Reef | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Friends of a student who died of Hodgkin's disease last July are creating a scholarship fund in his memory...

Author: By M.elizabeth Bentel, | Title: Students Remember Classmate In Freshman Memorial Fund | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

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