Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this instance, the subject is Lyonel Feininger, a world famous and influential painter most closely associated with the Weimar Bauhaus--but you won't see any of his most important works from that period or even many of his paintings. Instead you will see cartoons, newspaper clippings and pamphlet covers dating from before, during and after his rise to prominence...
...probably well versed in the finer points of international law. This detailed analysis seems particularly odd, for when the United States invaded Panama in 1989 (with over 23,000 troops), flagrantly violating the U.N. and the Organization of American States charters and numerous treaties, the press failed to subject our nation's actions to similar scrutiny...
...TROUBLE WITH THE SOLOmon R. Guggenheim Museum's much awaited show at its main venue in Manhattan, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline," is that its subject is far too big. The task that curator Mark Rosenthal has taken on is roughly comparable to doing an anthology of, say, European and American fiction since 1910 in 300 printed pages. However much you might wish it could be done, it can't. The field is too vast. You end up with a sample here, a masterpiece there, an overschematic story and an infinity of regrets about the omission...
Though it purports to be fresh and skeptical, the movie is really as old as A Star Is Born, from the early fumbling of the ingenue to her Mrs. Norman Maine speech at the end. It's one more essay on Hollywood's favorite subject: star quality. That's something Redford and Pfeiffer have in their back pockets. They can also act, though they don't have to here--for in this film, as in some TV news, the look is more important than the feeling. "Hair is character," says a woman in the movie, and director Jon Avnet seems...
...exhibit reveals, above all, the variety of Homer's work, both of subject matter and medium. No matter what your taste in painting may be--nature scenes, nostalgic images of childhood, or documents of war--the MFA's show has something to please...