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...Heavy Liquid" may not be a deep read, but it has a lot of entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
...Balthus, who died last week at his chalet in Switzerland at the august age of 92, as one of the great artists of the 20th century. He knew many of them and swam in the same water as they did, but he was not a giant fish like Picasso, Matisse or even his friend from early days in Paris, Joan Miro. Nevertheless he was a good artist, very good at times, though his later work fell far short of his best, most of which was done in the 1930s-50s. And he was, to all intents, the last celebrity...
...didn't just go for his contemporaries. Stieglitz was the first American to show "primitive" art in an "advanced" gallery--this being in the fall of 1914. Anthropological museums showed jumbles and heaps of African artifacts, but Stieglitz--whose eyes had been opened to such things in Paris by Picasso, Matisse and others--was ready and willing to assign an inscrutable Ivory Coast mask the dignity and singularity of an old Florentine bronze, or a new Brancusi. Today critics might find some unconscious bias in his belief that African art was close to the art of children: instinctive, untutored, vital...
...clue why he was there. Hopkins got the part, though, and since his debut as the petulant young Richard the Lion-Hearted in The Lion in Winter, he has turned out nearly 100 finely tuned performances for screens both big and small, including the egotistical artist of Surviving Picasso; the tragically flawed Commander in Chief of Nixon; the withdrawn butler in The Remains...
ROBERT ROSENBLUM, curator and critic, lectures on "Inside/Out: Picasso vs. Bouguereau in 1900" at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Carpenter Center auditorium. I'll be there cheerleading...