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...Picks What? The $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, won by Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, is supposed to go, explains Curator Lawrence Alloway, to "the great wherever seen. When Harry Guggenheim started the whole thing in 1956, he saw the prizes as a kind of equivalent of the Nobel Prize, something that was awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel...
...competitions are open to criticism for both methods and effects. Because of the sheer size of the task, it is virtually impossible for a jury or a single individual to be comprehensive in selecting entries, and the job is always complicated by the very rules intended to simplify it. Alloway of the Guggenheim was limited to choosing five artists per nation-equating the U.S. with Israel, for example-and also tried to make his choice from among artists born between 1900 and 1920, a restriction that bars both Patriarch Pa blo Picasso and the pushy princelings of Pop. Finding...
...appears to arouse experts to belligerence, pro or con, and at the opening of the Los Angeles show, two prominent New York museum officials got into a public altercation. The antagonists: Peter Selz, curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and Lawrence Alloway, curator of the Guggenheim. The paintings in the show are "limp and unconvincing," said Selz in a short talk. "It is the want of imagination, the passive acceptance of things as they are, that makes these pictures dull and unsatisfactory. It is as easy to produce as it is to consume...
...group of British intellectuals, including Curator Lawrence Alloway of the Guggenheim Museum, coined the term pop art back in 1956 to describe how certain serious artists were incorporating images from TV, movies and other forms of popular art into their work. But until a few galleries began picking them up, U.S. pop artists were barely aware of one another. Today, they are the new bandwagon; and since the avant-garde public is so hungry for more and more avant, the pop artists are in the chips. Wesselmann can sell a collage for $2,500; a Claes Oldenburg Floorburger is priced...
...current show at Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, Dine concentrates on paintings of articles of clothing -suspenders, shoes, hats, and a gaudy parade of neckties. Dine fans have bought up three-fourths of the paintings, and the show boasts a learned interpretation by the British critic Lawrence Alloway. who was recently named curator at the Guggenheim...