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...this week's story, which was illustrated by the well-known painter Paul Hogarth, Rosenblatt returned to his old D.C. haunts. For two full days he visited museums, monuments and neighborhoods in an effort "to get the city back in my eyes." Rosenblatt found our nation's capital as perplexing and contradictory as many Presidents have found it. Says he: "How can a city be at once so gracious and so ruthless...
...Kishinev refuseniks who have been applying to rejoin immediate family members in Israel for the past three to six years, have been denied exit visas on the grounds that they possess state military secrets. David Vodovoz, one of the six refuseniks, worked as a construction painter during his military service and denies possessing any such secrets...
Mamonova, a painter and poet, last year conceived and edited the first Soviet feminist journal, "Women and Russia." Despite her forced exile from the USSR last July, she hopes to continue writing about Soviet feminist issues for a Soviet audience...
...18th century England, and the English still love him: in every way, the big Gainsborough retrospective now on view at London's Tate Gallery is a ceremony of national taste. Organized by Art Historian John Hayes, it traces Gainsborough's career from his beginnings as apprentice painter of homespun Suffolk dignitaries to his apotheosis as the most popular and sought-after portraitist of the Georgian ruling classes. There are more than 150 paintings and drawings, although some of his best-known work-like the Blue Boy, or the exquisite portrait, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, in the National...
...portraits that occasionally looks almost spectral: the early figures of Heneage Lloyd and His Sister, round-eyed adolescents in a rococo garden, look like large pale dolls haunting an artificial landscape. Confidence came with his absorption of the grand manner. With access to the big houses, the young painter could see the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude. He rapidly learned to deal with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares" (as Henry James would say of the English gentleman...