"Le Pouvoir de l'Amour" reminds us that the word opera is plural, in other words a gathering of works ("opus" is the singular).
Just a few days earlier, at a gathering of working groups called the Spokes Council, a woman named Sparkle, wearing a sandwich board denouncing the finance group, had called for greater transparency.
At the same time, some observers suggest that Gouzer's sales are flimsy marketing exercises, bestowing an insubstantial veneer of coherence on a gathering of works that might just as easily appear in Christie's traditional evening sales.
But you won't do better than this, a gathering of works for New Year's Day and the Sunday after New Year (Cantatas Nos. 16, 41, 58, 143, 153 and 171).
The exhibition begins in the first floor lobby and public plaza area with a gathering of works focusing on the museum's roots and the life and artistic milieu of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
In his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, the artist who once created a picture for every page of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (an epic undertaking he collected in a book) has a gathering of works that range from wild sci-fi worlds to erotic daily scenes from his life.
This fall, two of his books will be issued posthumously -- one contains many of his previously unpublished poems from the early 1950's, and the other is a gathering of new works.
SoHo Through May 19 Danger is an interesting theme for an exhibition, but Exit Art's "Danger," a gathering of miscellaneous works by eight artists, is disappointing: nothing in it seems all that dangerous and no clear thesis emerges about danger in relation to art.
In mastering both forms, he resembles Thomas Hardy, a writer he admired and, in his early poems, often emulated.Warren's "Collected Poems" is a sprawling, uneven gathering of work which comes to life about midway through with "Instigations", a set of poems first published in the 1960s.
