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Various American painters rode to fame in the 1980s, and the shake-out that is going on in the wake of that binge has been hard on most of them. Not on Susan Rothenberg, however. Her present retrospective of paintings and drawings, 20 years' worth of work -- it was organized by curator Michael Auping for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and is now at / the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington -- only confirms one's impression of the nerviness, durability and occasional brilliance of her development, and of the psychological integrity behind the twists and turns...
...Rothenberg first became noticed in New York in the mid-1970s, with a series of paintings that depicted -- of all things -- horses. Despite her other merits, she is no George Stubbs, and her horses were of a generic cast, crude silhouettes with a certain amount of texture and internal patterning but no modeling, with heads like wombats' and hooves of clay. The surprise that they occasioned at the time came less from their fidelity to the equine form than from the fact that they were there on canvas...
Maybe so. But with the Democrats in Congress divided into nearly as many factions as the Republicans, Clinton may have a difficult time moving boldly in any direction. If, by 1996, predicts political consultant Stuart Rothenberg, Clinton is plagued by a still sluggish economy, a party in rebellion and a disgruntled electorate, "the Republicans get to do what the Democrats did in 1992, which is run as outsiders who want to bring about change." That's what got Ronald Reagan elected in 1980, after a Southern Governor who promised new directions failed to deliver during his presidency...
...choose sides. Neoconservatives and many Reaganites lined up against Buchanan, dismissing his message as negative and exclusionary. Bush haters and old-line conservatives, particularly those disaffected by Washington's self-important neo-con luminaries, admired Buchanan's courage and supported him with money. Says Catholic University's Stuart Rothenberg: "Buchanan has been confusing for conservatives. They don't like what he says, but they're so anxious to see George Bush punished that their reaction has been a mix of embarrassment and admiration at the same time...
...course, not all female artists today are overtly feminist. Gender has not explicitly been an issue in the work of Susan Rothenberg or Jennifer Bartlett, two of the most successful contemporary painters. Nor does it dominate the work of media artist Jenny Holzer, who this year became the first woman to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Still, the force of feminism has helped improve the odds that a female artist's work will be exhibited and taken seriously. This year's most visible example was "The Decade Show," a three-museum summer exhibition in New York City that...