Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity...
Beware of Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) once designed a kind of Orwellian prison called the panopticon, a jail building meant to provide warders with a view into the cells. It was never executed, but audiences have enjoyed panopticonic vision for years. Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand...
...disk set of remarkable clarity, in which the various elements of the orchestra stand forth in superbly wrought detail. In the comparatively calm air of the early symphonies and of the Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm. At one point during...
...York City's most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...