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...Freud's new work at full stretch, one need only look at the final painting in the show, finished just last month (too late for the catalog): Evening in the Studio. It shows the inside of the artist's London workplace, a medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant...
...treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows, and bursting with life...
Portions are medium-sized. For example, a plate of lasagna costs $4.50, and a 10-inch pizza goes for anywhere between $6.95 and $11.50, depending on the toppings...
THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT, by David Hockney (Chronicle Books; $35). The English pop artist's aggressive, arresting and restless work has explored nearly every medium -- painting, photography and printmaking. Here he discusses his development, training and inspirations at relaxed length. A generous selection of milestone paintings and drawings illustrates the scope of his visual assault on the commercial symbolism of the middle class, and Hockney's private vision and public persona...
Through Jan. 30. "Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book." Over 30 examples of this highly sophisticated, subtle and infinitely varied medium will be chosen for their meaning and beauty...