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Although introspective, Nin doesn't thrive on solitude. She focuses her curiosity on the outside world and delights in its confusion. She doesn't hesitate to draw attention to herself: she once performed Spanish dances; she modeled for artists in New York. She remembers a painter's astonishment when she arrived at his studio early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST...
...outdone, the Museum of Fine Arts tonight opens "The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya." Goya, perhaps the outstanding artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was both a painter and excellent graphic artist. Many of his prints--especially those from the end of his career--exhibit a strange kind of ghoulish melancholy over the state of human life. This show takes Goya's etchings and, using loans from Europe and the United States and the museum's own collection, traces the changes he made as each print advanced from state to state. They exhibit as many...
...miracles do happen in the Soviet Union," said a bearded, beaming Moscow painter. "We have had four hours of freedom here this afternoon," exulted another artist. Their cause for jubilation was the officially sanctioned "Second Fall Outdoor Art Show" at Moscow's Izmailovo Park last week...
Though Leonardo was, as everyone knew, chemist and physicist, mechanical engineer, musician, architect, anatomist and botanist as well as painter, it is not wholly possible to draw a dividing line between art and science in his work. Painting was to him a method of inquiry into the world's structure; it was the empiricism of sight itself. He tended to regard it as the queen of the sciences. His scientific work (on water, wind and their catastrophic powers, for instance) was presented in drawings of ravishing subtlety. Their purely descriptive intent in no way affects their aesthetic power...
Died. Jacqueline Susann, 53, strong-willed author whose creative caldron boiled over with lucrative tales of sex-and drug-happy celebrity types; of cancer; in Manhattan. The daughter of a successful portrait painter, Susann took up writing after an undistinguished stage career. But in her extensive promotional tours for Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973) and her nonfiction opus, Every Night, Josephine!, Susann kept her theatrical instincts well honed; she and her husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned...