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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...
...Willem Dafoe, (2) Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. Dafoe is in American Psycho with...
...census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that we are all related...