by Bill Chambers The third, shortest, and presumably final entry in an improbable film series of seesawing returns, Hal Hartley's Ned Rifle is the religious
component of a triptych that has thus far loosely tackled Art (Henry Fool) and Politics (Fay Grim).
Riopelle's painting Mitchikanabikong (1975), loaned by the Centre Georges - Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, one
of the world's foremost collections, is a harbinger
of the Icebergs series, a
triptych that reflects an identity process in which Riopelle signs each
component with linear lines that evoke certain enigmatic profiles
of the owl, his animal fetish, found both in his sculpture and works on paper.