The Return of The Natural: Lee Bontecou, off the scene for 30 years, hits a comeback home run. From: Newsweek | Date: December 15, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Peter Plagens

It's pretty hard to decide which is more inspiring: the long-awaited Lee Bontecou retrospective exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (though Jan. 11), or the movie-quality story of the 72-year-old artist herself. In the early 1960s, the blond, pixieish sculptor was a star, showing at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where her stablemates included Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein. Bontecou's reviews and "buzz" were every bit as good as theirs. A critic in the New York Post said that "her sculptures ...

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