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EDWARD HOPPER, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. A major realist painter, Hopper (1882-1967) is also an enduringly popular chronicler of New England lighthouses, late-night cafes and other vignettes of the American scene. The Whitney's collection of his work is unmatched, as this sampling confirms. Through...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings Americans a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
...valuable and timely exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art demonstrates just how much further Japan's children of the postwar "economic miracle" have gone in breaking the old rules. "Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties" affords American audiences an overdue opportunity to examine some 30 paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works made by nine artists age 40 or younger, plus one artists' collective. The first major U.S. museum showing of new art from Japan in nearly two decades, the exhibition was organized by Thomas Sokolowski of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center...
...quiet, gray city of Toronto gets a blast of flamboyant eccentricity in architect Douglas Cardinal's immense and curvaceous Museum of Civilization...
...Washington Project for the Arts is shopping around for a museum willing to present the Mapplethorpe exhibit, and a laser artist is making plans to project images of Mapplethorpe's photos on the Corcoran Gallery's facade. By canceling the Mapplethorpe show, the Corcoran's Orr-Cahall hoped to deflate the flap and engender serious reflection about what is art, what is not and what the Government should support. Those, she admits, are questions to which "no one has yet found answers...