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Double the Fun. The old entrance, known by its Arp-like curving marquee that tried to turn the facade toward Fifth Avenue, is now a wide breezeway through to the garden. To the east of it, Architect Philip Johnson, once the museum's director of architecture and design, has built a new wing with a facade of muscular steel beams framing huge plates of glass from sidewalk to roof (a similar wing will eventually be built to the west). Inside, the doubly expanded museum seems more than doubly competent to its task. Extra room lets it show...
CONSAGRA AND FRIENDS-Odyssia, 41 East 57th. Five contemporary Italians wear the mantle of their rich sculptural heritage with distinction. Pietro Consagra, winner of the 1960 Venice Biennale's International Sculpture Award, carves "colloquies" in slabs of stainless steel and wood. Alberto Viani smoothes sweeping surfaces to an Arp-like elegance. Quinto Ghermandi coaxes bronze until it is as fragile as a leaf. Francesco Somaini, Best Foreign Sculptor in Sao Paulo's 1959 Bienal. makes magnificent metal meteorites both rugged and grand. Leoncillo bakes gres (a clay mixture) until his solder-colored shapes look as if they sprung...
Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...
...Maremont, which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...
...liberated a splendiferous Eden filled with elegant new phyla of plant life. Now on view at Manhattan's Sculpture Center, Muir's subtly swiveling works exchange contours with the space that surrounds them, earning comparisons with the smooth biomorphic bulges that mark the sculpture of Arp, Moore and Brancusi...