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...dead. It simply didn't accord with his convictions about how art relates to experience and conveys its "density," a favorite word. Nowhere does his work show a sign of the metaphysical yearnings of the New York school, still less its primitivism. Porter's was very much a modernist vision, but classically so; its main source was Paris, and its exemplars were the great Intimists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. From them, as Agee notes in his catalog essay, Porter learned to "paint what you know, what is given to you, what is in front...
Maki, 64, may be the most talented modernist practicing anywhere today, and his achievement probably could not be duplicated in any other country. "Modern architecture," Maki notes, "having rejected ornament, leaves an unbearable void if shorn of details and a sense of material, no matter how expressive its forms." Thus the proliferation of unbearable voids in downtowns all over the world, where builders have used modernism to justify cheap, uninteresting materials and shoddy construction detailing. Maki's buildings are extraordinary not just because they are intriguingly conceived but also because they are so meticulously made...
Hovahness's Concerto No.8 for Orchestra and his "Prayer of St. Gregory" were accentuated in their grandeur by the presence of their creator. Batonless, the octagenarian composer himself conducted the former work. The orchestra, which seems at its best with the Baroque, carried the piece's modernist Eastern European theme well. Hovahness's Slavic exoticism recalls Mussorgsky and Stravinsky...
...deep throated brass added to the robustness characteristic of modernist Slavic composers, especially in the galloping allegro motto. The three fascinating andantes each brought back the dirge-like motif that characterized the first. In the latter two, the incorporation of bells over sometimes undulating, sometimes fluttering strings lent itself to the overall theme of exoticism...
...Kronauer Space--a cramped, dingy, dark and dank recess somewhere off the vibrant labyrinth of the Adams House tunnels--provides the ideal stage for Jean Genet's Deathwatch, a play set during the 1940's in a cell-block of an unspecified French prison. Genet's drama percolates with modernist tensions of alienation, violence, passion and, of course, nihilism. These tensions play themselves out within the network of complicated relationships which inevitably arise when you cram three male convicts into a dark cell in the basement of Adams House...