Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business manager; Margaret J. Rizza '71 of Cabot Hall and New Britain, Conn. and Richard H. Rosen '71 of Adams House and Highland Park, III., poetry editors; Douglas A. Booth '71 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Calif., prose editor; Sarah Warren '70 of 103 Walker Street and Nahant, art editor; Elizabeth A. Campbell '71 of 56 Linnaean Street and Harvard, secretary; and Thomas A. Stewart '70 of Adams House and Glencoe, III., Dionysus...
Bulky Bundle. The man in Ontario Street in Chicago, that is. With the aid of half-a-dozen assistants, 10,000 sq. ft. of dark brown canvas and 4,000 ft. of manila rope, Christo has turned Chicago's chunky Museum of Contemporary Art into an imposing if somewhat minimal-looking bundle. It is part of a five-week-long display of his talents, with packaged furniture and pictures shown indoors...
...life as lived by some decidedly improper Bostonians. Altogether betrayed by his faithless wife and conniving business agent who tricks him into painting the Da Vinci forgery, the narrator complains that he has been tipped into a "maelstrom of false marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores, slippery Italian counts, witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spiteful Russian cats, specious Polish wizards, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and ambitious Irish cops." He is also completely immersed in the unquestionably sprightly, if unusually perverse, world of three painters-Benjamin Littleboy, Leo Faber and himself -all three who are struggling haplessly to deal...
...unsettling story is fanciful. He has an odd ear for uneven sounds. Describing a man's chuckle, for example, he writes: "It sounded as if someone down inside his throat was crumpling a paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain at once fearful and frolicsome-as if Bruegel's earthy dancing...
...Mind offers, it is regrettable that it has met with so much misplaced criticism. In editorializing that Hoving is responsible for "Irrelevancy at the Museum," the New York Times is choosing comfort and convenience over difficult self-assessment. Their warning of January 22nd--that "the politicalization of art and all other forms of culture is a favorite device of dictatorship"--is ridiculously severe. Better they should deplore the pressures which led several New York City councilmen to threaten the end of the city's three-million-dollar allocation to the museum if the show's catalogue weren't withdrawn...