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SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING, a new musical comedy by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, at the Colonial...
Sculptor David Smith, whose pieces are among the best of welded sculpture; and Painter Adolph Gottlieb, whose canvases -usually some sort of calm circular form hovering near a frenetic, torn-looking shape-are getting to be a bit repetitious. Curiously, it was the two second-prize winners ($1,500) who simultaneously made their debut in the big time...
...Octopus. One of his parishioners once said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made...
...week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...
...standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that all he wanted was a print of the port of New York has-and highly prizes-a fiery black and red abstraction by Jack Youngerman...