European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A a a a r a a a a. A a. Pm Quot # v in 1990, opera Singer Joan Sutherland above retired from Fate stage. Far left tenors Luciano Pavarotti left Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo gave a joint concert in Rome to Mark Ltd in end of soccer s world cup festivities. Left mexican writer Octavio Paz was awarded the Nobel prize in literature. I 90 by Daniel  associated press More than most years artists and entertainers found. Themselves trapped in the earthly realm As Art met politics in 1990. A playwright Vaclav Havel w Rote the first act of his presidency in Czechoslovakia after his election dec. 29, 1989, while novelist Mario Vargas Llosa lost the race for president of Peru six months later. A a but another latin american writer. Mexican poet Octavio Paz did win something the Nobel prize Tor. Literature. A a a a a. A. A. A even sports played a role in Art. Soccer s world cup a festivities prompted the greatest concentration of Tenor Talent in one place when Luciano Pavarotti Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo Sang at a joint concert in  from halting Havel s dramatic production the _ political Renaissance in the communist world had other artistic consequences in 1990. Quot the British stage discovered Eastern Europe. A spate of plays chronicled upheaval there including works about soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev life in Romania and a fictitious country patterned on Czechoslovakia. E the cold War s demise allowed Sov Iet born cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich to make a triumphant return in february to the land that banished him 16 eat it ago leading the United states National symphony a orchestra m an emotional concert in Moscow. Another artist How Ever remained deprived of his Tio Edom. Writer Salman Rushdie maintained his internal exile under a death sentence a islamic fundamental its. He did emerge for a Book signing and radio interview. L in the theater world debate raged Over minority . Actors Union refused to allow British actor Jonathan pry Ceto reprise his role As a eurasian Pimp in the $10 million Broadway production of the London musical mss Saigon. The Union said it was offensive to cast a White in the. Role. But after a furious Public debate it relented and the show is scheduled to open in new York with Pryce a next Spring. \. A. A lbs Saigon was a hit in London but most other _ musicals there flopped. It was also a season in which the British invasion of Broadway was reversed. Suddenly every other play seemed to have originated in new York. The world has always put artists on trial. The United states seemed to do so with particular vigor in 1990. A Juryn Cincinnati Ohio on oct. 5 acquitted an Art gallery and its director of obscenity charges for showing sexually e. Mapplethorpe a homoerotic photographs and a picture by Andres Serrano of a Crucifix in urine prompted a nation Yide debate Over the role of the federally of Quot a a natio Nuj endowment for the arts which partly. Underwrote a show with the Mapplethorpe works and Gav e a Small Grant to Serrano. In Art 1990 was the year of Van Gogh who died 100 y ears before. His Quot portrait of or. Cachet Quot went at auction Tor a record $82.5 million during the Spring As the Art Market neared its Peak. By the fall the buying euphoria was gone and the Market deflated. Recession fears in the United states helped reduce auction prices. Avan Gogh retrospective in Amsterdam Drew a record 4 stripes Magazine january 3