New New Painting

Moffett defines the modernist context which informs "New Acrylic Painting" and examines the development of this movement in North America during the 1980s. Ten artists making use of the vivid colors and material properties of acrylic comment on their individual evolution. Includes a text where Paquet considers what is at stake in 20th-century painting. Biographical on artists and authors. 10 bibl. ref

Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our results, which pertain to the cohorts born between 1952 and 1975, do not reveal major changes in intergenerational mobility. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.