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
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