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...Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is holding a marvelous retrospective of Westermann's work, the first in a generation (the last one was in 1978, at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art; he died only three years after). It comes with excellent catalog essays by Robert Storr, Dennis Adrian, Lynne Warren and Michael Rooks. It is a revelation, for it sets before us an artist who deserves to be rated as one of the great American talents, and should have been long ago; an aesthete of unshakable integrity who looked and talked like Popeye the Sailor...
...harshest elements. What becomes a legend most? Suffering. A childhood of deprivation; liaisons with powerful, possibly dangerous men; career triumph soured by personal despair. A life of melodrama makes the diva more human, thus more godlike, to her fans. A catchy moniker helps: Callas...Garland...Lady Day...Whitney. The singer in the news last week was no exception, seemingly groomed by her parents for divadom. For a start, they called the kid Mariah...
...several years, a Sony executive notes, Carey has had problems sleeping. A close friend was "not surprised at all" by the breakdown. "She works ridiculously hard." Since she became a star at the age of 19 in 1990, she has made nine albums, in contrast to three by Whitney Houston...
...stars, movies are the new videos. Vocalists who came of age watching Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard see film roles as essential elements of divadom. Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child recently headlined MTV's hip-hop remake of Carmen; next month Mariah Carey will star in Glitter. As for Aaliyah, she has been signed to play a character named Zee in the two upcoming sequels to The Matrix. She is still waiting on plot details in the top-secret productions but says she hopes to get in on the action: "There's nothing like a strong woman who kicks...
Where does Wayne Thiebaud fit into modern American painting? You don't have to spend long in his current retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art to realize that he fits eccentrically, and that he has been an anomaly for so long that it hardly seems to matter anymore. It seems hardly possible that a painter of this quality should be having his first retrospective in New York when so many lesser talents have been thus honored by the Whitney, but Thiebaud has had to wait a long time to outlive an inbuilt prejudice in Manhattan...