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...Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. His house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need of a new slip
...OILS, says the sign outside the white cinder-block building, a former used-car sales office located among the pizzerias and gas stations off Detroit's Woodward Avenue. Inside, 500 paintings cover the walls and even part of the ceiling, which supine browsers can study from a large couch. The gallery, named the ARxerie, is dedicated to the uncontestable principle that every American home ought to have a real painting in that empty-looking place over the stereo set. Those who drive in are assured of finding art in every style, subject, size, color and medium, mostly bought...
Last week, while children used the ARTerie's red couch for a trampoline, their parents were buying as if television were going out of style. After five days in business, 114 paintings had been rented, while more than 100 pieces of art, including an African circumcision mask, had been sold. The management plans soon to throw in a free car-wash with every purchase...
...subjects are uneasily seated atop a dais, sprawled in frank nakedness on a couch, wrestling through homosexual positions on a podium. In last year's Three Studies for a Crucifixion, a motif he has been studying since 1931, Bacon painted a triptych more than 14 ft. wide with enigmatic figures and bony carcasses looming in red oval rooms. The central panel contains a kneaded corpse lying in bed amidst a welter of congealed gore. There is no more overt Christian symbolism than that every man can find himself martyred meaninglessly. And the source of Bacon's idea...
...will reluctantly admit that being a woman does help at times. When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S., Lisa was the only TV reporter to interview him. "I just walked up to him, took him by the hand, and sat him down on a couch," she reports...