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Rothenberg did her first horse, a pallid and watery sketch, in 1973, and it is hard nowadays to remember what an unyielding prejudice against any kind of hand-painted figuration existed in New York 20 years ago. Abstract art -- in particular its last whole-cloth style, Minimalism -- had done away with all that. It had also shaped artists' expectations about format: split and abutted canvases, "primary" X shapes, the whole pictorial rhetoric of the canvas as object...
...PRESENCE HAUNTED THE HALLS OF Congress last Wednesday night, it was not Kennedy or Roosevelt or any of the other 20th century Democrats who beckoned the citizenry to sacrifice. It was Ronald Reagan, the last leader to stand before the country and sketch a vision so dramatic. "Government is not the solution to our problems," Reagan said in 1981. "Government is the problem...
...that battling, indispensable institution -- offers a rare chance to see his work in some depth. It isn't a full retrospective or anything like one: it leaves out Lam's youth and age and concentrates only on his middle years, especially those spent in Cuba. Its object is to sketch the kind of relations Lam set up between his Afro-Cuban heritage, the work of other Cuban artists, and the avant-gardes (the word still meant something in the '40s) of Paris and New ) York. Its catalog, with essays by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Lowery Stokes Sims and others, does...
...refined his best artistic tendencies. Mature artists often simplify, discard the old frills, decide what's important. Miller is 77 now; he has nothing to prove but much to tell, in a few words. The Last Yankee qualifies as prime old-man's art. It is just a sketch, really -- some lines that reveal the contours of a soul. In his final days, Matisse did work like this...
Chances are that this would not be an accurate sketch of the Tupperware parties of years past. Of course, Maimonis doesn't fit the precise mold of the "Tupperware lady" either...