Word: sketchbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assassins is a sketchbook, sparse and almost forgettable in its musical elements, dominated by skits that would have been too extreme for Saturday Night Live in its heyday. The linking idea is that assassins constitute a sort of club, with past and future killers inspiring one another in a grand conspiracy. This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin...
...what used to be called a connoisseurs' show. It covers a short time in a long life. Henri Matisse visited Morocco just twice, in early 1912 and again in the winter of 1912-13. Hence the exhibition is fairly small, only 24 paintings and a large group of sketchbook drawings. It can be seen without sore feet and framed as a whole in one's mind. It is thorough, scholarly -- Jack Cowart, John Elderfield, Pierre Schneider and others have done a fine job on the catalog -- and, above all, full of exhilaratingly beautiful paintings that have lost none of their...