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...figure is powerful but much lighter. She twists toward her companion and her left arm, bent at the elbow, is thrown across her face. There is grace but not freedom. Both figures really seem to be "happening," to be struggling free of the surrounding darkness. Even in a classical motif Lebrun preserves the heaving of his visceral world...
Ghostly Shapes. In his most recent work, Anuszkiewicz often uses three or four colors and a simpler geometric motif. Each painting has its internal rhythm, which is measured like bars of music. One yellow and grey painting has a pattern of grids, some of which are quartered, some cut to sixteenths, and so on. In other paintings, stripes or threads of different colors run over a common background to form diamonds and squares that emerge not as solid forms but as ghostly shapes coming out of nowhere. Some have the misty delicacy of a rainbow; others glow like fluorescent light...
...Memphis, Tennessee, because she was not permitted in a white hospital after an automobile crash. This play, in examining the anguished relations among a tyrannical nurse, a liberal intern, and an Uncle Tom orderly in a hospital admissions room, reveals the human sources of this futile death. The death motif is central to all of Albee's plays, and in this one, the physical mutilation offstage (we never see Bessie--her presence is felt through the compelling beauty of her music) is reflected and deepened by the psychological mutilation before...
...separated by fractions of space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
With its slim pillars and airy grillwork, the house rises coolly from the hot, harsh Indian landscape. Inside, a many-plumed fountain plays in the lofty reception hall, whose interior walls, repeating the grille motif, rise majestically to the shallow, ruler-straight roof. A sculpturally handsome staircase spirals upward to the private quarters, which are ranged around the two-story-high central hall. The clean, modified-Mogul lines of Roosevelt House reveal the fine hand of Architect Edward D. Stone, whose U.S. embassy chancery in New Delhi (TIME, Jan. 12, 1959) established the grille as an adornment of contemporary architecture...