Tucson Weekly: African Odyssey (November 19 - November 25, 1998)
'Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings' Is A Sumptuous Display Of Politically Charged Narrative. By Margaret Regan OUT OF AFRICA metaphorically, and out of Italy literally, Robert Colescott's paintings are come home at last to Tucson. Now mounted in a sumptuous exhibition at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings first went up at the Venice Biennale a year and a half ago. The work of UA professor emeritus Colescott, these extravagantly colored, politically charged narrative paintings were the U.S. entry in the 1997 international art fair. Colescott was the ...
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