Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RICHARD DIEBENKORN: WORKS ON PAPER, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Some 180 works -- more than one-third of them never before publicly exhibited -- by a contemporary master in his first comprehensive show of drawings. Through...
...year-old black student and a middle-class American, I sometimes experience the type of racial discrimination you depict. Unfortunately, I more often encounter prejudice among members of my own race. I am seen as trying to be white if I excel or show ambition. I am even criticized because of the way I speak. We are defeating ourselves when we condemn one another for achievement. Healthy competition among blacks may be just the medicine our ailing race needs...
...updated version of the TV show Mission: Impossible, special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...
...hard to imagine a useful century-wide show of French or American art. The subject, in either case, is too big, various, richly inflected and unwieldy to be stuffed into one trunk -- at least, without the kind of editing that amounts to severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th...
...Italian avant-garde before World War I, where this show begins, found itself in a fix under the immense shadow of its own cultural history. Either it made a diverting Oedipal commotion about the loathsome oppressiveness of the past, like the futurists, or immersed itself in poignant reveries about its authoritarian and alienating beauty, like Giorgio de Chirico and his associates in metaphysical painting...