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Most fans of Elizabeth Murray's work will remember a time, only ten or twelve years ago, when the American art world decided that Painting Was Dead. Henceforth the future would belong to videotapes, "propositions," "events" and bits of string on the gallery floor. The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes. Though no prophecy could have proved less correct -- painting has filled the horizon of American art in the '80s, almost to the point of monopoly -- a young artist needed cussedness and conviction...
...Luckily, Murray had both, and the sight of a dogged, idiosyncratic mind firmly engaged with its own experiences is what her traveling retrospective show -- which will open July 28 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, having closed late last month after a seven-week run in Boston -- has to offer. At 46, Murray has developed without shortcuts into a wonderfully articulate painter, one of the best of a generation that includes Susan Rothenberg, Neil Jenney and Brice Marden. Her show of some 45 works, a midcareer report organized by the Dallas Museum of Art with an excellent...
...Murray Rogers...
Staking their argument on rhetorical ploys, political columnists such as Carl Rowan and Murray Kempton have condemned the jurors for sanctioning societal prejudice. A Black guy who shoots four white guys would never get off, they say. But if the jurors were to let a hypothetical Black assailant off, would Kempton and Rowan rest easier? They should not, because they would in effect be standing up for the principle that people scared of young tough kids are justified in using deadly force...
...searching for new members of the board, which is carefully chosen to represent diverse economic and political viewpoints, has become something of a regular activity during the past decade. Since the board was founded in 1969 to swap views on economic trends with TIME's editors, four members -- Greenspan, Murray Weidenbaum, Martin Feldstein and Beryl Sprinkel -- have left to serve as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Jokes Alexander: "We're running out of economists to give to our country." Three other board members -- Walter Heller, Arthur Okun and Charles Schultze -- served as chairman before joining the TIME group...