Art.

The article focuses on the painter Larry Rivers. His paintings reflect the several depots of his journey which include the Bronx, the Hans Hoffman assembly line, the new Bohemia. His latest: paintings, exhibited this month by Tibor de Nagy, indicate that he is only a year or so away from a top position in avant-garde art. Rivers is so take up with the stereotyped sloppiness of present-day intra-subjective painting that he loses any chance for playing with such powerful and subtle machinery as shape, contour, three-dimensional composition.