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...Note the supporting-actor contenders. Albert Finney, Benecio Del Toro (will he recite his acceptance speech in Spanish, or speak in English but make no sense?), Willem Dafoe (so sure he would be nominated that as the nominations are announced he's already wired for an interview with Matt Lauer on "Today"), Joaquin Phoenix (camped it up in "Gladiator" as if he'd learned acting by watching John Travolta in "Battlefield Earth"), Jeff Bridges (who camped it up as a president in "The Contender" as if he'd learned acting from John Travolta in "Primary Colors...
...WHAT Willem Dafoe, Golden Globe nominee, Best Supporting Actor...
ARTS ON THE POINT IS THE MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT THE BOSTON ART WORLD HAS SEEN FOR A DECADE. ARTS ON THE POINT ALREADY HAS WORKS BY WILLEM DEKOONING, SOL LEWITT, DENNIS OPPENHEIM AND OTHERS LINED UP AND READY TO GO. ARTS ON THE POINT WILL BE BOSTON'S FIRST SCULPTURE PARK-IF, THAT IS, THE HATE MAIL, VANDALISM AND THREATS DON'T STOP IT DEAD...
...Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. Opening the lines of communication has spurred Arts on the Point back into action, as Tucker enthusiastically plans the installation of five new pieces: Tony Smith's infamous "Stinger," Ursula von Rydingsvard's cedar "Large Bowl with Mechanic," Gillian Jagger's "Resurrection," Willem DeKooning's "Reclining Figure" and Dennis Oppenheim's "Searchburst." He is financially fully committed to all the pieces and hopes to make installation progress over the next six months...
...Alphabet demonstrates, Guston struggled throughout the 1960s to reconcile his growing desire for concrete figuration with his already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then...