Word: abstractionism
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The movie is a procession of perfect moments. Its dialogue is an exquisite fusion of the hard-boiled and a shameless, high-cholesterol sentimentality. The lines inspire a laughing, capitulating kind of affection. One cherishes them: What waters? We're in the desert . . . I was misinformed . . . Was that cannonfire...
The photographs are becoming a sort of genre of the late 20th century: the massacre shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in...
Out of Rosovsky's unhappiness came what Harvard somewhat misleadingly calls its core curriculum. Inaugurated in 1979, after much faculty debate and amid considerable press attention, this core turned out to be a rather sprawling collection of 122 different courses, ranging from Abstraction in Modern Art to Microbial and...
The retrospective of some 150 Avery oils and watercolors, organized by Barbara Haskell to open the Whitney Museum's fall season, can show only a fraction of this output. But it is a delectable fragment. It will also provide plenty of fuel for reassessment. Nobody could call Avery a...
Jeanette Blakes, 28, was given a 20-to 60-year sentence for shooting to death an acquaintance who, Blakes says, attacked her with a knife. She has served six years in the Dwight Correctional Center, Illinois' women's prison. "What do I miss most here? My freedom," Blakes says. The...