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...young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein, Bontecou and others. I had joined Bellamy's Green Gallery, but Leo brought visitors to my loft, including the famous collector Count Panza di Biumo. In 1964 I joined the Castelli Gallery and had my first show with Leo in 1965, with my 86-ft. painting...
...Larimer/Tokyo. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Washington and Stella Kim/Seoul
...neither from the audacious depiction of adult brutality to children nor from the optimism that gave a climactic absolution to the misery that preceded it. Translating her youth into melodrama, Pickford usually played the poor, plucky waif; she suffered for her poverty (she was beaten, scalded, whipped) and, in Stella Maris, she died for it. Like Dickens, Pickford wed sentiment to social passion and created enduring popular...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Stella Kim/Seoul, David Liebhold/Bangkok, Hilary Roxe/Hong Kong and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...slightly weird consequence for this show. The older works--the ones from the teens, '20s and '30s--look fresher than the younger ones. We are used to seeing endless reproductions of de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko--but not of Elie Nadelman, Arthur Dove or Joseph Stella. Because of this contrast, the top two floors of the show--it starts at the top and, taking advantage of gravity, goes downward--seem more interesting than the third. That's not the art's fault, but it goes a long way toward fixing the imbalance in Americans' views of their own past...