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...wall of writhing protofigures, its passionate wristy drawing inspired by 1930s Picasso yet unmistakably leading to Pollock's mature style. But at the Royal Academy, it doesn't connect to a major "allover" painting by Pollock, because none could be borrowed. This problem repeats itself with other artists. Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon, 1959 -- that unforgettably poignant assemblage featuring a real, stuffed, blackened American eagle spreading its wings but equipped with a pillow in case it fails -- needed backing up with more powerful work than this show could obtain. And the hanging can be awful; if you want...
...tourists and assorted hangers-on are expected to gather in dozens of auditoriums and outdoor sites for nearly 400 official and unofficial events, among them an environmental technology fair, a scientific symposium and a meeting of mayors. Peter Max's art will appear on special postage stamps. A Robert Rauschenberg poster will be slapped up on walls. Placido Domingo will headline a star-studded musical tribute to the planet. And a full-size replica of a 9th century Viking ship will sail in from Norway carrying messages of goodwill from children all over the world...
...constantly asked to give time, effort and artwork to charity," he notes. "But almost no one turned us down." Over several months LaBell enlisted the help of more than 200 art dealers, museum directors and artists, who donated work to be sold, including Annie Leibovitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. To eliminate administrative costs, LaBell persuaded everyone from catalog photographers to an insurance company to give their services to the project, dubbed "Art for Children's Survival...
...years ago, but it no longer offers art the same possibilities. The optimism of '60s Pop makes it look more romantic than it used to. Having been propaganda for its own culture, some of it has turned into history painting of a quite poignant sort. Robert Rauschenberg's Retroactive II, 1964, with its spaceman and its young, glamorous, dead J.F.K., might well be the last affectionate tribute to a political figure produced by a major American artist -- you can't imagine an intelligent person feeling the same hero worship for Kennedy today, let alone for Reagan or Bush. Much...
...Andy Warhol said, was "about liking things." Around 1960 -- actually a few years before that, if you date it from the early combine- paintings of Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns' flags and targets and, earlier in the '50s still, the work of Larry Rivers -- a number of young artists emerged in New York City, Paris and London who had little in common beyond their curiosity about the largely disparaged sea of mass media and commercial persuasion: ads, billboards, newsprint, TV montage and all kinds of kitsch. In the '20s Dadaists and Surrealists had been fascinated by this too, but Pop art dived...