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...Messer, the former director of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for La Caixa, Spain's leading private cultural foundation. It is a big affair-some 540 paintings, sculptures, photographs and architectural samples-and it leaves room for much wrangling about choices. (No Balthus? Why nothing by Jean Halion...
That wig, those glasses, that cadaverous pallor, it's . it's . DAVID BOWIE. The singer, whose own efforts at painting have not yet been accorded the critical attention Andy Warhol's drew, is playing the pop icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film...
...clear from the start that the cave that park ranger Jean-Marie Chauvet stumbled upon in the south of France last year was a major archaeological find. Like the famous Lascaux cave nearby, the limestone cavern was covered with spectacular paintings from the depths of prehistory. This one seemed much older, though -- maybe 20,000 years, compared to 17,000 for Lascaux -- and it contained much more artwork, including images of animals, such as owls, panthers and hyenas, that had rarely if ever been seen on cave walls...
...grief-stricken people there. Johnnie Cochran Jr. has filed a class action against a Texas company that made the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22]. That's like blaming knife sellers for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Jean Wilson Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...DIED. JEAN MUIR, 66, fashion designer; of breast cancer; in London. Though Muir first made a mark in the early '60s, her mastery of starkly simple yet always elegant designs kept her on the cutting edge for three decades. Her practical credo: "When designing clothes, you must remember that you are covering a body that moves." Her specialty: the "little black dress...