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...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale about New York City rich kids. But two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's crafty sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 3, 1989 | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...Balla was the best painter associated with Futurism, the idea of metaphysical painting is all but synonymous with De Chirico. Just as futurist cells sprang up all over the world, and futurism was for most people synonymous with modern art up to at least 1925, so De Chirico's dreaming, spatially deceitful piazzas and arcades, with their phallic locomotives and long-shadowed statues, had an immense resonance both inside and outside Italy. Their influence on surrealism was crucial, but their reveries about past and present, nature and culture, memory and desire also hover behind much Italian art from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raw Talk, but Cooked Painting | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

African art is created not for museums or living rooms but for the community. Its function is fourfold, says Elimo Njau, a Tanzanian Lutheran painter. Art "makes Christianity African," provides a new context for worship, stimulates devotion and teaches the meaning of the Bible through imagery. Many works are signed collectively; others are anonymous. At Sims Chapel, Zaire's oldest Baptist church, even Sunday school children played their part: their rude drawings provided the basis for the chapel's stained- glass windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Africa's Artistic Resurrection | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale of rich kids. Two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 20, 1989 | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Papandreou has not testified before investigators, though he vehemently denies any involvement in what he calls a "conspiracy aiming to hurt Greece." But investigators have yet to hear from the central figure in the case, George Koskotas, 34, a onetime New York house painter who vaulted to power as the multimillionaire owner of the Bank of Crete. Now jailed in Massachusetts on a variety of charges leveled just before he fled Greece last November, Koskotas is facing extradition to answer accusations of looting his own bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals The Looting of Greece | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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