He has found a collegial atmosphere in San Diego that he prefers over that of his native Peru, or of Germany, where he lived for 12 years before moving here in 1982. The Hockney show also ranks as the 23-year-old museum's sixth most visited exhibition, trailing by 17,000 the fifth-place "Shogun Age" a 1983 exhibit-which Powell says "Hockney" could pass by Sunday. Theodore Gericault's "The Raft of the 'Medusa' -a scene of desperate, dying and dead men on a raft at sea at the moment a rescue ship appears on the horizon-was based on the 19th-Century "French government's Watergate" Schopp said. Officials envision another capital campaign for an endowment fund of as-yet-undetermined size.

Burchfield didn't so much fight the fashionable Modernism of his time as ignore it, a disregard that got him branded as regressive by some critics. But now people are coming downtown for jazz" The Horton Grand's elegant Palace Bar has become a jazz listening room, as has the Bella Via restaurant's bar in Cardiff, and Elario's atop the Summer House Inn in La Jolla. Arthur Davies, represented by a tiny image of slender tree trunks blooming in soft pools of green, was a dreamy Tonalist. Sweet-faced women gaze adoringly at their children or daydream in flower-filled nooks Boats bob in harbors Golden autumn settles over rolling hills. " 'Why would I want to look at something like that' " Some 20-odd years later, the Berkuses own more than 200 works, many of them on a massive, architectural scale. But her 26-year-old touring repertory company may be the best kept secret of the county's cultural life. choose me, Baby" Another psyche (all his characterizations come down to the same person, becomes a vampire, a "lone wolf (who) would like to pant my rancid breath into your perfumed faces" Chameleon-like, Trules is an original. It might be said, however, that there was a buzz country-China-and that among its young directors, two in particular who were here, Zhang and Chen Kaige "Yellow Earth" "The Big Parade" and "King of the Children, have emerged as the festival's real discoveries.

and Mexico, but it could just as easily be a metaphor for a lot of other things. At a signal from director Reza Abdoh, each group is admitted to a different room to see what's happening inside. With this voice, I entered one of the best junior high schools in New York, Castle Hill in the Bronx. The markings, cast with a spirited automatism, hint of constellations, and the paintings themselves suggest an innocent's playful mapping of celestial space The exhibitions continue through June 30. . New parents Michael and Hope are earnest, well-meaning but neurotic: "Those are usually people who have been neglected; it didn't surprise me that Michael's father was neglectful and driven" he noted.

He was one of the century's most literate snarlers, but he had a light side as well. Created by Allan Burns, the promising "Eisenhower & Lutz" is about a sleazy, fast-talking young shyster trying to scratch a fast buck from car crashes and whiplashes. He was born in San Francisco, went to officers' candidate school at Ft Benning, Ga, and did a hitch as a lieutenant in the Army. The elegantly tall, female dancers, who minutes earlier had churned, strutted and quivered their extravagantly costumed bodies, were being hugged and kissed like long-lost friends. Press screenings for films in official competition start early, and director Clint Eastwood's "Bird" was no exception.

"We are taking a year's hiatus to try to alert the community to the need we have for underwriters, donors, supporters-to help us create an endowment for budget purposes. There's an earthworks artist whose pop was an archeologist and a kinetic junk assemblagist whose old man was an engineer Sometimes it just seems like fate Louise Nevelson talked about herself as if she were fated. Gary Wright (remember him) has a new album due out June 28 titled "Who I Am" on Cypress Records. The play, a San Diego premiere, is by John Patrick Shanley, whose screenplay for the film "Moonstruck" won him an Academy Award this year Fans of "Moonstruck" will notice certain similarities. Though disobedient of any logical order, the shapes cohere visually in spirited compositions hinting that Duvall couldn't truly "unlearn" all that had burdened him in art school Like the dreams and imaginings.

"It got to the point where I was constantly strung out on booze, Valium, cocaine and heroin" he said. " A pause, and then back to business: articulating long-range company goals-including a full-length "Cinderella" (a dream of Robert Joffrey's) that he expects "maybe two years down the line, probably not home-grown" He won't confirm or deny company interest in the 1948 Royal Ballet "Cinderella" by Frederick Ashton, a choreographer who has become something of a Joffrey Ballet specialty. Before Cannes, Slovo screened her film at several universities in the United States, including UCLA and USC. Looking for a sure-fire formula for success in the restaurant trade? Air this one: 1) Find a prime location, preferably adjacent to any glitzy suburban mall. Sloughing off a sudden pain in his chest, the widowed Frank takes off with the beautiful, long-divorced, considerably younger Frances (Julia Blake) to start a new life in a tropical paradise in Northern Australia.