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AILING. Joan Miró, 90, protean Spanish painter of playful, dreamlike canvases; gravely ill with deteriorating respiratory disease; in Palma de Mallorca...
Anyone who knows American museums also knows that by no means do all of their best exhibitions go to New York City. The latest omission of this kind is "Hockney Paints the Stage," a lavish and delectable survey of the theater work of the English painter David Hockney, which opened last week at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was organized by the Walker's director, Martin Friedman, whose catalogue, with additional essays by Poet Stephen Spender and Theater Director John Dexter, is the definitive work on Hockney as stage designer. The show will travel to Mexico City...
...foreign painter alive today is more genuinely popular in America than Hockney. Certainly none has achieved such popularity with less compromise in the essential quality of his work. That work has its ups and downs, like any other oeuvre, but one would need a flint heart and a glass eye to resent Hockney's success. The bleached-blond thatch, the square face like that of a cubified owl, the schoolboy spectacles, the togs (blazers, cricket caps, candy-striped odd socks) that suggest the house captain of some imaginary...
DIED. Ivan Albright, 86, American painter renowned for his eerie, disturbing portraits, which feature microscopically detailed scars, blisters, varicose veins and other deliberately provocative signs of human decay; in Woodstock...
...Harvard Square dozens of students were standing by the kiosk, waiting for the extras to begin to arrive. A man in painter's overalls was arguing with a policeman about putting the flag over the Coop at half-mast...