The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 133

THE COuWFR-JOUHNhL SUNDAY, AUGUST '6. 1W A A REVIEWS Gift ensures sculpture court in Met's new four-story wing Met's director, as "the last vast open space within the museum," it has been designed to evoke a formal French garden of the period of Louis XIV. It will provide, according to de Montebello, a noble setting for monumental European statuary of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries from the Met's substantial collection. Additional works will be shown in an arcade along the court's south side. -C As part of the project, the museum's former carriage entrance, on the north side of the court, is to be restored to its original 16th-century Italian Revival style.

This facade, designed by Theodore Weston with Arthur Tuckerman, was completed in 1888. Petrie's gift matches the $10 million given last June by Laurence A. Tisch, chairman and president of the Loews Corp. and chief executive of CBS and his brother, Preston R. Tisch, postmaster general of ttfi United States.

Their donation will go toward the building of special exhibition galleries in the new wing, to be called the Tisch Galleries. The city of New York also has announced plans to contribute $13.5 million toward completion of the wing. With $1 million given by Lila Acheson Wallace to build a new conservation center in the wing, the Met has raised $34.5 million of the wing's expected cost of $51 million. GRACE GLUECK New York Times News Service NEW YORK A gift of $10 million has been pledged to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Milton J. Petrie, chairman of the Petrie Stores a chain of retail stores specializing in women's apparel.

The money will be used for a sculpture court in the four-story wing being built to house European sculpture and decorative arts. The $51 million wing, the final element in the Met's master plan of 1970, will fill the last gap in the museum's western facade. The court will be named for Petrie and his wife, Carroll. With a personal fortune estimated at about $1 billion, the 85-year-old Petrie is well known as a philanthropist He has given gifts in the tens of millions to such institutions as the Beth Israel and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical centers. He also has made smaller donations to individuals, such as the $20,000 annual payment and $100,000 college trust fund he gave last year to the family of a New York City detective, Anthony Venditti, who was shot and killed on duty.

The Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court, facing Central Park, is to be 32 feet wide by 240 feet long. A pyramidal skylight is to rise 63 feet at its highest point. Cited by Philippe de Montebello, the By DIANE HEILENMAN Art Critic of Photographic Archives A few end-of-summer exhibits in Louisville are worth trotting out in the heat for. The one not to miss is "John Ranard, Photographs from 'On Boxing, which continues through Friday at the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. His arresting images capture the brutality and grace, shameless hype and personal courage that form American boxing.

Boxing, seen through Ranard's bled of objectivity and compassion, is po sport but the private business of finding or losing one's self through the medium of being knocked about the head and shoulders. The search can start early. One of the most compelling pictures shows a handsome young boy waiting in a school corridor to be called to a Golden Gloves competition in New York City. Somber and introspective beyond his years, he sits in front of the door to Room 103, decorated for February with silly valentine's and pat portraits of Lincoln and Washington. The point seems to be that the youth, scarcely old enough to be allowed to walk to school alone, has voluntarily done away with childish pleasures and pursuits to become a member of a realm removed from the world of most children, or most adults.

Ranard's photos illustrate Joyce Carol Oates' "On Boxing," published early this year. In it, she describes boxing as "the body's dialogue with its shadow-self or Death. Baseball, football, basketball they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing." Although convention holds that photos illustrate and underscore a Detail of textile triptych "From Pink Dogs to Lead Angels," by Jane Burch Cochran, at the Water Tower Art Association through Aug. 30.

text, it actually seems the other way around here. Ranard's photos make the prose compelling. Louisville's prominence in national boxing is well-represented in this exhibit, but it's far more profound than a local-interest show. It punches through the promotional veneer of boxing, and even those who dislike boxing may find they understand the appeal of this deadly sport The exhibit also includes a handful of Ranard's street scenes of New York, making it clear that his observational skills are not exclusively aimed at boxing. Ranard, who studied at Louisville's former Center for Photographic Studies for seven years in the 70s, lives in New York City.

The exhibit on the lower level of the Ek-strom Library is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, until 8 p.m. Thursday. Water Tower Art Association A second exhibit is notable mainly for the bright and powerful embroidery triptych created by Jane Burch Cochran of Rabbit Hash, Ky.

Her work is a refreshing part of a survey of contemporary Kentucky art at the Water Tower Art Association that suffers from overfamiliar- ity. Cochran's "From Pink Dogs to Lead Angels" is actually three separate pictures that in combination tell a tale of personal search and possible enlightenment through the unlikely media of buttons, sequins, beads and scraps of fabric. Embroidery is, in general, a refreshing new wrinkle in the painting scene regionally, which is too often pat, expected and unchanging. Cochran is one of 10 painters and sculptors selected for "State of Mind," an exhibit designed to represent the best and brightest "non-traditional" work being made in Kentucky. Curators Nancy Fletcher Cas-sell of Union and Jenny Kilb of Fort Mitchell also have included their paintings in the exhibit that continues through Aug.

30. Also represented is Ron Isaacs of Richmond, whose trompe l'oeil fantasies of antique clothing and plants created from painted cutouts are always arresting. A similar feeling of the fragility of time and human endeavor is suggested by ritualistic structures cre- more gestural works by painters Jan Kirstein of Louisville and Cynthia Kukla of Fort Thomas. The Water Tower at Zorn and River Road is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit will also be shown at the Carnegie Arts Center in Covington Oct. 9-26. ated of black-painted twigs and various objects by Florence Thome of Lexington.

Dark whimsy appears in the oil pastel drawing by Sandy Miller Sasso of Almo, whose "Vicarious Thrill" shows some plant-like creatures watching a sort of drive-in movie screen on which is playing a catastrophic astronomical event. Also included are folding paintings in triptych form by Ann Stewart Anderson of Louisville that continue her interest in women and aging; large charcoal drawings of fantastic, ominous cities by Ying Kit Chan of Louisville; and abstractions that range from the subtle, gently colored painting by Dale Leys of Murray and geometric collages from colored film by Jerzy Rozenberg of Lexington to hotter, harsher and NOTES OPENING Arts Club exhibition SATURDAY: Swearingen Gallery, 4806 Brownsboro Center, Louisville, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Works by Neil Diteresa, through Oct.

1. The Arts Club of Louisville opens its first exhibition in new quarters at 7 Theater Square today with a free 6 p.m. reception for the artists, all from Louisville. The group exhibit combines John Alvers painted land- Soviet's Hermitage, two U.S. museums plan a series of international art loans mm fabric collages; Mattie Chadwell's quilts, Robert Klickovich's pencil portraits and other works; and Howard Fitch's international collection of masks.

ifxhibit hours are 11 a.m-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. At 6 p.m. each the club holds an open reception followed by dinner and entertainment For cost and reservations, call (502) 584-8726. 'Racing Days' premiere "Racing Days," an exhibit of works by Boston photographer concludes its national premiere Aug.

31 at the Kentucky Dejby Museum at Churchill Downs on Central Avenue. The collection of horse-race images will then travel in the United States for three years. The Derby Museum is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Velde and others.

These paintings include some of the greatest examples of their kind, including Rembrandt's "Saskia as Flora" and "Sacrifice of Isaac," van Dyck's "Self-portrait" and "Henry Damvers, Earl of Danby" and Rubens' "Landscape With Carters" and "Night Nativity." In exchange, an exhibition of French Impressionist paintings (20 from the Met, 30 from Chicago) will be sent to the Hermitage. In 1989, "French Painting from Poussin to Matisse" will come from Leningrad to New York and Chicago, and an exhibition of medieval art will be sent to the Hermitage with important loans from the Met, the Cloisters and the Art Institute of Chicago. New York Times News Service NEW YORK A remarkable series of international art loans between the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hermitage in Leningrad is now in the final planning stage. The first of four exhibitions, entitled "Dutch and Flemish Painting from the Hermitage," is scheduled to open in March 1988 at the Met and is to move later to the Art Institute of Chicago. It will include six paintings by Rembrandt, five by Rubens, four by van Dyck, three by Ruysdael, two by Jan Brueghel I and single works by Frans Hals, Aelbert Cuyp, Jacob Jordaens, Gerard Terborch, Hen-drik Terbruggen, Willem van de II IMS OTMlPniETriE c-j INFO BOOTH Although this is not a typical question, we have answered all sorts of questions at the Kentucky State Fair.

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