Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TURNER'S COME AND GONE At the Yale Rep and on tour, a shimmering, mysterious depiction of rootless and religiously obsessed blacks in the early 20th century. The best work of August Wilson, the stage's foremost poet of the American black experience, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Fences when it reached Broadway...
...Turner and Constable, of course, dominate. It will be some time before the U.S. sees a finer group of Turner watercolors than those assembled for the show. They cover all the phases of his work, from early picturesque scenes of ruins such as Tintern Abbey through the grandly managed complexities of his Alpine views with every pebble and wreath of mist in place, like The Passage of the St. Gothard, 1804, to the mists and chromatic blooms of his amazingly modern late watercolors...
...undoubted recent success is James Stirling's multicolored Clore Gallery, a wing of the Tate Gallery, which opened earlier this year as the repository of the Tate's nonpareil J.M.W. Turner collection. Stirling created a well- proportioned and handsome set of viewing rooms with a crisply formal yet amusing exterior, highlighted by a cutaway pediment entrance. As for the National Gallery, after several abortive efforts, including the "carbuncle" debacle, it has settled for restraint: a safe, classically modern stone-faced design by American Architect Robert Venturi for its much needed $63 million extension...
...Turner contrasted the inaccessible nature of Soviet society in the early '80s with today's surprising openness. He cited the two-hour CBS documentary shown this May about Soviet life, which was the network's first documentary on the subject in more than 20 years. He said he was amazed that only two months elapsed from the moment CBS created the idea for the show to the time of its telecast...
...used to take us two months to get permission to film inside one factory," Turner said, "and even then it would be spotless and full of healthy, industrious and cheerful workers...