ONCE WELCOMED, BLACK ARTISTS RETURN TO AN INDIFFERENT FRANCE by Roger Cohen "Attending a conference here last week on the relationship between black American artists and Europe, Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of the department of Afro- American studies at Harvard University, was surprised to find himself mistaken for a taxi driver." (p. C11) LUCIAN FREUD WORK AS A LATE ARRIVAL by Carol Vogel "...Mr Freud took the unusual step of delivering his latest painting to the Met so that it could be added to the show." (p. C11, photo) IN SAN JOSE, KNIGHT-RIDDER TESTS A NEWSPAPER FRONTIER by William Glaberson "The quantity and quality of its electronic services puts The Mercury News, in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco, ahead of most newspapers in the country at turning the whirl of hyperventilated preditions about the electronic future into a real daily offering." (D1) (NB: The San Jose Art Museum has made a deal with the Whitney Museum to be supplied with exhibitions from the Whitney collection over an extended period of time. RNM) That's all. (The ACFcluster was sick this weekend. All flames, praises and indecent proposals will be answered when they come crawling in). Robbin Murphy [log in to unmask]