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...amazing museum show comes by. You know the name, the work has been around for some time, so how come you didn't grasp before how good the artist is, and how wide the work's scope? That's how it is with the retrospective of the German painter Gerhard Richter, beautifully organized by curator Robert Storr for New York City's Museum of Modern Art. (It will be on view there until May 21, before traveling to Chicago, San Francisco and Washington...
...best, Morin captures the atmosphere of contemporary Tokyo and enlightens with the plight of the burakumin. She thoroughly intertwines the tales of three dynamic characters—Lois, a Harvard-educated painter, Shintaro, the buraku, and a stockbroker usually known as Max or Jack. She deftly uncovers the seediness of the cosmopolitan gaijin (foreigner) world of nightclubs and gin-and-tonics, blackmail and insider trading. Her most delightful descriptions are of these underworld dealings and of the intrigues in the personal lives of the protagonists, each of whom loves the one member of the trio who doesn?...
...DIED. MARIA FELIX, 88, sultry screen siren of Mexican cinema's golden age whose career spanned 47 films; in Mexico City. Best known for classics of the 40s and 50s like Dona Barbara, La Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line...
...painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was commissioned to do a print advertising the opening of the Moulin Rouge, a much-hyped new nightclub in the bohemian Montmartre quarter of Paris. The print, known today simply as “Moulin Rouge,” was so popular that, within days, admirers were stealing them from kiosks throughout the city. With the success of “Moulin Rouge,” Toulouse Lautrec’s career changed course. Prints became his primary medium; flamboyant can-can dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However...
...Fogg, writes in the show’s essay. By contrast, this exhibition seeks to allow the viewer to see Toulouse Lautrec’s portraits untainted by his more famous prints and to focus instead on the intimacy and vulnerability of the subjects and the intense relationship between painter and subject...