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...Light-Art" show staged at Eindhoven last September by Philips' Lamp of The Netherlands. A record 42,000 visitors showed up when Kansas City's Nelson Gallery staged a month-long "Sound Light Silence" show last November. The minuscule Howard Wise Gallery on Manhattan's 57th Street was jammed to its sockets with 20,000 visitors when it displayed 36 artists from nine countries in its "Lights in Orbit" show this February. The same show, with 20 exhibits added, is currently breaking all attendance records at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis...
...that the management wasn't serious about that new house. Indeed, the Be-Patient-New-Met's-A-Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center to be used by the Met, but when the acoustics proved faulty, the company refused...
Father of Hatred. The N.A.A.C.P., which usually manages to accomplish a good deal at its parleys, spent most of its 57th annual convention responding to the black-power advocates, a defensive stance that many N.A.A.C.P. members deplored. Openly bestowing his blessing on the N.A.A.C.P., President Johnson took the occasion to say in a Texas press conference: "We are not interested in black power and we're not interested in white power, but we are interested in American democratic power with a small d." Addressing the Los Angeles meeting, Vice President Hubert Humphrey added: "There is no room in America...
...Disapproval. Students cheered the election promise but not Yerovi, whom they viewed as a symbol of the hated oligarchy. In Guayaquil, Cuenca and Loja, they stormed government buildings and held them for hours. Nevertheless, Yerovi went calmly ahead and took the oath of office as Ecuador's 57th president. "I have heard voices of disapproval for my presence here," he said in his inaugural address. "I would like them to know my point of view." With that Yerovi promised peace, austerity and economic stability. Meantime, students outside were chanting on: "People, yes! Yerovi...
PHILIP C. CURTIS-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. "It's easy, in a slate like Arizona, for a painter to symbolize," explains Arizona Painter Curtis. "The trees, abandoned houses, ghost towns have always been a source of fascination for me." His oils-eerie scenes acted out in an atmosphere as hot and dry as Phoenix at noon-send spectators running for their Freudian primers. Through...