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Grant Wood at the Whitney: afresh look at an American icon...
...worst fate an artist can suffer, late in life, is being famous for a single work. The worst after death is oblivion. Grant Wood (1881-1942), the American regionalist painter whose retrospective of 84 drawings, prints and paintings opened last week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, suffered both. There was a time when millions of Americans who would never have looked inside a museum knew, from reproduction, one painting of Wood's, American Gothic: he with the pitchfork and faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front...
...tribal law of the art world is that nothing is immune to revival. In March, a drawing by Wood flabbergasted everyone by selling for $143,000, and now the Whitney show (which travels over the next year to museums in Minneapolis, Chicago and San Francisco) will undoubtedly create even loopier bids for the few works in Wood's small mature oeuvre that are not already in museums. It seems felicitous that Grant Wood's reviving angel, the art historian who has worked on him for a decade and who curated this fascinating show, should bear the name Wanda...
...only studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Brooklyn bred Dimitri Hadzi enjoys the unique position of Harvard's permanent artist in residence. He is a sculptor of world acclaim represented in the permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality to them...
Many other executives, however, have discovered that the computer is a tool of limited use. Says Horst Pohlmann, a Pratt & Whitney vice president who supervises 2,600 people: "There is no way that I have the time to feed data into that machine. I concluded that my time could be better spent with my people." Arthur Kesten, who installed his computer at home, sometimes communicates with the three big mainframe computers at the U.T. research center where he is an assistant director. But Kesten found that the device is ineffective as a home appliance. Says he: "Balancing a checkbook...