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...Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an even bigger Miro show goes on public view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City: 291 paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, put together by art historian Carolyn Lanchner. Miro got his first retrospective, at MOMA, more than half a century ago, and now he is getting the treatment reserved for the heaviest guns of 20th century art: Picasso...
...bantering, romancing lawyers from Adam's Rib, silky threats at an art auction from North by Northwest, the murderer and his motive from Charade. The movie's Manhattan locations exploit some of the most glamorous spots in Greenwich Village and Tribeca. Wallpapering the film is the work of 37 modern artists, which was flown at great expense from New York City to Universal's California studios. A budget of $30 million and change ought to be enough to get this down right. Isn't, though, because somebody forgot to hire a story editor. The incidents in a comedy-thriller...
...line and the more elusive qualities of gentle lyricism and knockout sexual allure. Still to come is Sylvie Guillem, 21, of the Paris Opera Ballet, which arrives next month on its first U.S. visit since 1948. Guillem stands out with a sensational, long- limbed body and a cool, thoroughly modern wit. In alphabetical order, then, to avoid billing squabbles, portrait sketches of the three: ALTYNAI ASYLMURATOVA. ''She was an Oriental beauty, and she dreamed of lying in bed being fanned--a modern Scheherazade. And so I bit her.'' That is Kirov Artistic Director Oleg Vinogradov's fanciful way of explaining...
...musical scale. Just before he went on, Goodman was asked how long an intermission he wanted. ''I don't know,'' he replied. ''How much does Toscanini get?'' Tastes changed after World War II. The big bands became dinosaurs. Somewhat petulantly, Goodman decried bop and other forms of modern jazz, even though he had blazed the way with his trio, quartet and sextet for such groups as the Modern Jazz Quartet. Later he would denigrate rock, even though, in his ability to inspire mass mania, he had been a prototypical rock star. He always seemed uneasy at being pigeonholed, and made...
...dawn broke, authorities had rousted out of bed and taken into custody hundreds of antiapartheid activists, and assumed positions on city streets and in black townships. In the folklore of the country's Afrikaners, the settlers almost always win. But it was far from clear last week whether this modern laager would quell South Africa's latest siege of violence or lead to even greater disorder. The extreme show of force was part of a new, nationwide state of emergency declared by the beleaguered government of State President P.W. Botha. The decree gives South African security forces unprecedented powers...