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Trying to dispel reports that pop diva WHITNEY HOUSTON and BOBBY BROWN are divorcing, Houston's spokeswoman has announced that the singers are merely "having marital difficulties." She added that they are attempting to work things out and would appreciate some privacy, thereby guaranteeing that scads of tabloid photographers will now be following the couple's every move. A marriage on the rocks isn't the sum total of Brown's problems. He has been arrested twice this year for battery and also awaits a court date for allegedly kicking a security guard in West Hollywood...
...show of Stettheimer's paintings at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, titled "Manhattan Fantastica," is a fairly irresistible event. You would need to be a bear not to enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News...
Kudos to Robert Hughes for his insightful look at the originality of artist Edward Hopper in his report on the show at New York City's Whitney Museum [ART, July 17]. It was once said of Hopper that his paintings were a reflection of his own loneliness. Hopper lent majesty and dignity to ordinary objects (fire hydrants, desk lamps) and to people, whose courage in the midst of desolation he captured with sensitivity and pride. JOHN R. LEOPOLD Pasadena, Maryland...
...being prodded by an alien on a screen near you in Species, is working on a touching project of his own. He's making his feature-film directing debut with Waiting to Exhale, the adaptation of the hugely popular 1992 novel by Terry McMillan, starring the even more popular WHITNEY HOUSTON. It's the story of four women, played by LORETTA DEVINE, Houston, ANGELA BASSETT and LELA ROCHON, who are all, for reasons mostly involving men, holding their breath. How did an actor macho enough to play a bomb expert in a bomb like Blown Away fare directing such...
...largest collection of Hoppers, some 2,500 paintings, drawings and prints, was left to the Whitney Museum of American Art by his widow, Josephine Nivinson Hopper, when she died a year later. Hopper's name is more closely bound to the Whitney than any other American artist's to any American museum, and the Whitney's main show this summer is a reunion of some 60 of his finest paintings from various collections, including its own. "Edward Hopper and the American Imagination" isn't a formal retrospective. It's more an evocation of Hopper's world, and its scale feels...