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...doubt that Los Angeles can manage to support two museums of modern and contemporary art, and Powell dismisses the idea that LACMA and MOCA will end up cutting each other's throats. "Will the Met's new wing of modern art detract from the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney or the Guggenheim?" he asks. "No -- it just creates a more fertile environment." So it will, and the indications are that Los Angeles is the place where the old reflexive assumptions about the provincialism of the rest of America vis- a-vis New York are fated to be broken down...
...peddling, former White House Aide Michael Deaver seemed to be on the rebound. Deaver recently emerged from self-imposed obscurity to advise Ronald Reagan on the Iran-contra crisis. Moreover, an investigation of Deaver's affairs has dragged on for seven months, prompting allies to suggest that Special Prosecutor Whitney North Seymour Jr. had no case against him. Last week, however, a federal court broadened Seymour's authority: several Deaver associates could soon face charges of perjury and obstructing justice, and Deaver might be indicted for lying to a House subcommittee...
...condition for a cultural institution, and it does so on some of the nation's highest-priced real estate. One offshoot of the increasing coziness between the arts and business has been that corporations now offer the use of lobby space in their office towers to cultural establishments. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for instance, displays works in three New York City office buildings. Arts institutions benefit by having highly visible locations; the companies are often allowed zoning easements because of their cultural support. Such deals, however, can be nerve-racking. Companies can borrow back exhibition space and even...
...social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroiding, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent. And the public that liked Upstairs, Downstairs is going to like him -- a thought that may not have been too far from the Whitney Museum's calculations when it planned the retrospective of his work that opened there * earlier this month and will go to the Art Institute of Chicago in February...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...