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Jacques Chirac, 49, Premier of France from 1974 to 1976, mayor of Paris since 1977 and leader of the neo-Gaullists, the largest opposition party in the National Assembly...
Outside the neo-Byzantine cathedral, more than 5,000 people jammed Victoria Street. Typically, the Pope worked the barricades, reserving his warmest enthusiasm for children. Most onlookers were Catholics-England is only 10% Catholic-but Protestant Housewife Val Weatherbee remarked: "A man of peace in a land of war." Added another, "I'm not a Catholic, but I believe this is my only chance to see an authentic saint...
...Larry Rivers, makes a bow to de Kooning's women, and then sets up some large-scale American realist art from the '70s, contrasted with the perverse and gritty fantasies of Chicago School artists like Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke. From there, it goes to the various neo-and pseudoexpressionist variants that fill the galleries today. It is a weak anthology with some good art in it; in terms of coherent art history, it is a shambles. The curator, Barbara Haskell, has neither thought her subject through nor wangled enough space to display it properly. Yet the show...
...began by emigrating from his native Seoul in the '50s, first to Tokyo and then to Germany, to study music. In Germany he met Composer John Cage, that perennially controversial guru of the avantgarde, and he was soon busily involved in the multimedia "events" and benignly neo-Dadaist actions of a European artists' group that called itself, for its commitment to change, Fluxus...
...paintings-of drowning swimmers and divers (like A Fish on the Back of the Adriatic Sea , 1980), heroes tormented by doppelgangers and harsh schematic landscapes-are elaborately ill-painted in order to support the fiction of terminal earnestness. This, of course, is the main trick in the repertory of neo-expressionist effects, and Cucchi does it over and over again. The best of his paintings here, The Mad Painter, 1981-82, seems to parody this condition; the rest simply deploy their accepted rhetoric of crudity as vitality. Artists of Cucchi's persuasion, wild pets for the super-cultivated, serve...