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...Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures. It would be possible to assemble another equally large exhibition from the prominent names left out -- Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon, to name a few -- but the shortcomings of the show are paltry compared with its pleasures...
...photographic styles ranging from the dark documentary stills of Robert Frank to the robust portraiture of Lisette Model. This week he reviews "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989," a sweeping survey of the form's history at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Says he: "This show will impress upon people the sheer variety of the art. There's nothing mechanical about...
Part of the allure springs from the subject, which plays upon the mysterious fascination that outlaws and gangsters have always held for law-abiding American citizens. In this, Billy is a native son of his place and time, a poor section of the Bronx in 1935, which is distinguished in his eyes only by the fact that the famous Dutch Schultz grew up there. In truth, Schultz still runs a beer drop in the vicinity, even though Prohibition has been repealed: "We were honored to know that our neighborhood was good enough for one of his places, we were proud...
...area just three miles away is Mandela House, a residential program founded by Thomas over a year ago for crack- addicted pregnant women. In a cozy five-bedroom home that smells of baby powder and food cooking on the stove, fingers that recently clutched glass crack pipes now rest upon distended bellies. From a back room floats the sound of a baby's cry and a soft, throaty voice singing, "Runaway child, runnin' wild, / . . . go back home where you belong./ You're lost in the great big city...
...seeming mismatch between the party's needs and Brown's temperament has politicians guessing about his prospects. "Depending upon how he handles it," says a longtime friend, "it could be the rehabilitation of Jerry Brown and of the Democratic Party in California. Or it could be the return of the flake." The greatest fear is that his election will undermine Democratic candidates by giving Republicans a chance to dredge up his Moonbeam past. Brown thinks otherwise. "I can become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would...