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...auction ($2,869,500 in 2002 for his 1966 Portrait of Nick Wilder). His devotion to representational art has sometimes made him seem out of step, sometimes in. Two years ago, he was one of just a handful of artists of his generation to be included in the Whitney Biennial, the New York City museum survey that tries, however bumptiously, to define what's happening. The curators credited him with "serving as a model for painting's renewed focus on the intimate and the figurative." And with the Boston show, which will travel to Los Angeles and London, Hockney...
...invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails, phone calls and other things, a lot more could be achieved. Ally Whitney Eugene, Oregon...
...being down 7-2 to narrowing the gap to 7-5 before falling 8-5 to Amber Liu and Celia Durkin, who had played for Harvard as a freshman. In the No. 3 position, juniors Preethi Mukundan and Cindy Chu fell 8-2 to the Cardinal’s Whitney Deason and Theresa Logar. Stanford won four straight singles contests in the No. 2, 3, 4 and 6 spots to advance to the final round. Mukundan at No. 5 singles led the Cardinal’s Deason 6-2, 2-4, and Wang at No. 1 was behind...
Davis, who discovered Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and more than a dozen other platinum acts, says, "I always encourage people to write their own songs, but in the pop arena, where the career is totally dependent on hits, you get skeptical. Artists with great voices like Melissa Manchester and Taylor Dayne could have had much longer careers if they didn't insist on writing their own material." Clarkson doesn't think of herself as a pop singer--"Rock is what I love," she says--and she's been writing songs since her teens, but rather than argue over labels...
...invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails, phone calls and other things, a lot more could be achieved. ALLY WHITNEY Eugene...