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...CORBUSIER: PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, GRAPHICS, Nahan Galleries, New York City. Yes, the great modern architect, who died in 1965, was also a painter. He kept this activity a secret for years, but in these 32 canvases and drawings and 52 graphics, one can see why he regarded it as the "foundation" of his architecture. Through...
This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to find distinguished ancestors for rich people, is so obliging at parties that he can be put "next to a tree and he will talk to it." Another, a television-documen tary producer, temporarily quiets the victim of a recent crime with her theory that all human beings exist psychologically...
Citing the first case she ever argued--the defense of a 35-year-old Black man accused of killing a white painter in rural Lafayette, Ala.--Friedman said that race often dominates capital cases in the South...
...Nevertheless, he has virtually been dropped from the history of the New York School. At most, Pousette-Dart has had a sentence or two (and not always that) in the standard history books; none of the influential critics of the '50s backed him, and he remains a decidedly underknown painter...
...adored son of a painter father and a poet-musician mother, both of whom believed more in creativity and spirituality than in formal art training. The fact that they wanted him to be an artist annulled, for Pousette-Dart, the insecurity that makes some painters overdependent on the art world; he could and did go his own way, being spared the insecurity and conflict that would presumably have been his lot if he had decided to go into law or advertising. "I guess I was even belligerent about my aloneness," he remarked many years after the early '50s, when...