Fixed at the center of the blue-curtained Memorial Hall proscenium, the 2013 "Fireworks" offered a luminous evocation in striking blacks, whites and grays of Balla's full-color cubistic landscape of plains and pinwheels.

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Mr. Hockney seized on the cubistic potential in Polaroid.

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