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They took hours to unload everything. At least one alumnus brought along a TV, apparently anticipating some dull moments in the action-packed schedule which lasts through post-Commencement hucksterism. But between carting the children to Walden Pond and the adults to prepaid boogies at the Metro, the smooth reunion organizers don't leave much room to reflect...
THERE WASN'T TOO MUCH leather at Saturday's seminar, nor much pink hair. The Metro-Spit complex hold some mean-looking types, but there were also quite a few three-piece suits sprinkled among the 400 or to participants in the Boston Rock Music Seminar. They came to discuss their business, rock, and speak with representatives from independent and major record labels, producers of bands such as November Group and The Cars, disc Jockeys and a hearty helping of press and management people...
Certainly Longo is the best of them. But his ambitious split show, which fills two galleries (Castelli and Metro Pictures), displays a worrisome unevenness: harshly accurate feeling one moment, bombast the next. Longo's subject is people under stress; in his paintings, the lid on the urban pressure cooker is always about to blow. He began to make a reputation two or three years ago with life-size figures of men and women apparently in their late 20s, starkly drawn in graphite on a blank ground, twisting and grimacing and staggering. They were, of course, done from photos (only...
Longo is not without entrepreneurial desires. He staged performances, did sculpture and is producing a full-length film, Empire. His art got more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry...
...movies made at home, starring actors they can identify with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...