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CARL ANDRE IS DOOMED to a life of explaining exactly what his sculpture is not. His bold experiments in Minimalism, subjects of a retrospective at the Institute for Contemporary Art, fall victim to misinterpretation by two camps of museum-goers.
If forced to choose, Andre would side with the latter group, rejoicing in the directness of a child's expression. Andre relates to his creations on an intuitive level. For him, sculpture is meant not to communicate ideas, but to enrich experience. "Nothing but the cheapest and lowest art conveys...
At the same time, Andre recognizes that art is a social process, that "art must be seen and apprehended by someone else." "Seeing" for Andre doesn't stop with giving a sculpture the old once-over-lightly from across the room. He wants people to touch the grain of the...
Politics, moreover, has fashioned what has begun to seem like a permanent alliance with show business itself. In season, the same names that decorate the gossip columns and Variety begin popping up in political chronicles. Last week a squiblet on Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a...
It was closed down during World War II, but before and after, during the hapless Third and the revolving-door Fourth Republic, stirred its editors to punishing glee. Le Canard also thrives on serious controversy. Says Chief Editor Roger Fressoz (pen name: Andre Ribaud): "We began doing more investigative reporting...