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JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. From 700 artists, the Museum of Modern Art's William Seitz picked 26 painters and sculptors for this first major U.S. showing of contemporary Israeli art. Agam and Castel are well known here, but others, notably...
...opposite page), a Hungarian who lives in Paris. Albers paints only colored squares. Vasarely dons the craftsy lab coat instead of the smock and refers to his work as visual research. Their influence has given birth to optical artists in a dozen countries, from Israel's Yaacov Agam to remote Iceland's poet-painter Diter Rot. Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta III dickered and chattered with electrically driven, and even electronically musical, kinetic op. At the square root of op art are the essentially static visual phenomena...
...MOVE-Wise, 50 West 57th. Throwing switches and turning on paintings is an esthetically cold, if ingenious, game, but a dozen U.S. and European artists amuse themselves anyway by applying physics to esthetics. Things like Len Lye's tingling, kinetic steel Fountain and Agam's movable painting, Le Grand Cercle. Through...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...Stead, '91, were the starters. Wells won in 51 3-5s. Sturgis was second. Gibson, '88, gave an exhibition hammer-throwing. Five of his six throws were over 90 ft., the other being 89 ft. 11 in. In his fourth trial, he threw 93 ft. 2 in., agam breaking the Harvard record. The regular half-mile run was between Miles, '88; Dana. '88; and Downes, '90. It was a pretty race, the men coming in well bunched, Downes slightly in the lead, Miles second. Downes' time was 2m. 3 1-5s. The final 100 yards was now called...