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Willem de Kooning, whom many would call America's greatest living painter, was 43 when he had his first one-man show and today, at 90, with his painting career finished by senility, he has still not had an adequate museum retrospective. The last attempt at such a show was staged at the Whitney Museum in New York City 10 years ago. It was a bust because so many of De Kooning's key paintings from the '40s and '50s were not lent. The show titled "Willem de Kooning Paintings," which opened this month at the National Gallery in Washington...
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Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
This isn't simply a coming-out story; it's about a much less categorical sexual phenomenon. The husband remains attracted to women, not men, save for this one man, whom he devours. The result is misery for everyone -- although no one is quite as miserable as the painter's roommate, a transsexual dying of AIDS. Mark Mocahbee has staged a supple, swift-paced and solidly acted production, minimalist save for screens that display the characters' unspoken thoughts. And the vice squad? They came, they saw and this time they decided the show...
...seems never to have felt the Oedipal hostility to the past that garbled the rhetoric of Modernism. He didn't think of art as a weapon against paternal authority, ^ because he grew up in an extremely nurturing family, a sort of artists' guild presided over by his grandfather, a painter, and his father, the potter Merric Boyd. (The only way to rebel against such a clan would have been to join a law firm...