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DIED. ROBERT PASTORELLI, 49, beefy film and stage actor best known for his role as the ever-present screwball house painter Eldin on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown; of an apparent drug overdose; in Los Angeles...
...Florentine artist filippino Lippi was the product of a scandalous 15th century love affair: his father, Filippo, an artist and Carmelite friar, was chaplain of Santa Margarita convent in Prato when he ran off with a beautiful nun named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by the rich and powerful. The twist in the tale came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius...
...Contemporary Art, Sydney's 1996 show, which pondered the future of photography in our computer-generated age. With a Los Angeles Times photographer fired during the Iraq war after he combined two images for added impact, it's a question that hasn't gone away. Just this month, British painter David Hockney, longing for the days when photography was the domain of darkrooms, not digital cameras, said the art form was dying because of its inability to remain "truthful" and "authentic...
...festival peer through one of the gallery's fire doors - some of the best work in the Biennial is as still as a painting. Indeed, Rosemary Laing's latest suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot...
...With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, film clips and installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack...