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...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...Beat himself. He blends fact and fiction freely and his flourishes have become part of his myth. According to his autobiography, which was turned into a television drama, Beat was the youngest of four children, born to a strong-willed woman who ran the household, and an underachieving house painter who drank too much and even failed at joining the yakuza. "My childhood was just a succession of nervousness and tension," he remembers. "We all froze the minute we heard my father come through the door. It really twisted me. I don't remember ever having a normal conversation with...
...wanted them all to study engineering in college, and Beat did, enrolling at the prestigious Meiji University before growing restless and dropping out. He drove taxicabs, worked in a strip joint and then decided to try his hand at comedy. "Takeshi, you are the son of a house painter," his brother admonished him. "You will never make it in entertainment." Beat just nodded when he heard this warning. He didn't say a word...
Comparing himself to a painter, Burns said, "This is a still life, not a landscape. I could not include everything...
...created the opening credits for the film Seven. Variations on architectural drawings by masters like Rem Koolhaas are also on view. And scattered throughout the galleries and acting as a unifying intermezzo is the sculptural furniture of Scott Burton. The finale is The Predator by architect Greg Lynn and painter Fabian Marcaccio, a massive installation inspired by the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, part alien organism and part architectural...