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...VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights the camera's courtship of pure form. Through...
...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
From the point of view of American museums, the art-market boom is an unmitigated disaster. These institutions voice a litany of complaints, a wrenching sense of disfranchisement and weakness, as their once adequate annual buying budgets of $2 million to $5 million are turned to chicken feed by art inflation. "There are many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight...
FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated figures. Through...
...kept her courage and took long sojourns in New Mexico. But she never made a complete break. Shortly before his death at 82 in 1946, Stieglitz attended a Museum of Modern Art show and sent a love letter: "Incredible Georgia -- and how beautiful your pictures are . . . Oh Georgia -- we are a team." And so they remain in the public imagination...