A few pages into Tender is the Night a young ingénue is laid out, "on the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about halfway between Marseilles and the Italian border." It is a crisp, indelible image of ideal summer. A few other American ex-pats spot her alone on the beach and engage her. "We thought maybe you were in the plot," says a woman described as "a shabby-eyed, pretty young woman with a disheartening intensity." She continues, "We don't know who's in the plot and who isn't."
With this running joke, Fitzgerald deftly exposes the anxious social machinery humming just below ...
Work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung.
In conjunction with the College Art Association's annual conference four Chicago galleries will host exhibitions that feature the work of the 13 painters who will comprise CAA’s Studio Art Session: Painting Panel.
Rowley Kennerk Gallery will present the work of four painters on the CAA panel, Rebecca Morris, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Mary Heilmann and Varda Caivano.
The story of Gregory Battcock is difficult to document. Born in 1937, Battcock was a painter in the early 1960s who found his way into several of Andy Warhol's films (he starred in "Horse" and "Drunk"), and later he became a critic with eclectic interests--he wrote about minimalism and performance and video art as well as the aesthetics of ocean liners. His best-known book is entitled Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past (Dutton, 1977). In the 1970s Battcock's influence was quite broad--he was editor of Arts magazine for a while--and among his more adventurous projects ...
