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...glowing, ebullient artifice of England's Howard Hodgkin...
...European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters have more to offer than other, more loudly promoted figures of the day. One of them is Howard Hodgkin, whose current New York exhibition opened at the Knoedler gallery last week...
...Hodgkin is 50 this year: a diffident man with a tough, discursive mind and a long background in art history, collecting and teaching. There is not a more educated painter alive, and it would be hard to think of one whose erudition was more exactly placed at the disposal of feeling. His paintings look abstract but are full of echoes of figures, rooms, sociable encounters; they are small, "unheroic" but exquisitely phrased. The space they evoke is closed, artificial, without horizon or other legible references to landscape. One seems to be looking into a box full of colored flats...
...Because Hodgkin's type of abstract flatness admits the eye some way into the picture and identifies the surface as an imaginary opening, it has nothing to do with the idealized flatness of '60s American color-field painting. It hovers on the edge of scenic recognition, tricking the viewer into the thought that just one more clue might disclose a particular room or restaurant, a familiar scene. Sometimes it will. The most spectacular painting in the current show, In the Bay of Naples, 1980-82, presents itself as a soft hive of colored blobs, blooming and twinkling...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...