WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson



Last week started off with a bang at the Museum of Modern Art press preview for "De Kooning: A Retrospective," when New Republic art critic Jed Perl blew his top at the press officer who didn't have a complimentary copy of the catalogue for him. "I'm one of a handful of critics writing for a national magazine, and I must have that catalogue immediately," he said, in a surprising display of temper.

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