Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Atkinson and the assembled artists in the show well know, optional art is deadly serious in intent. It is meant to give even the most inexperienced viewer a way to express compositions of his own, to allow him to share with the artist in the pleasure-and catharsis-of creation. But if catharsis implies tragedy, to most gallery-goers optional art ranks as high comedy. Milwaukee digs op primarily because...
...London shop. The complete Girard Foundation collection today consists of some 100,000 items, including doll houses, and other memorabilia from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. To install "The Magic of a People," Girard worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for three months. Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a New Mexico friend, helped by selecting and installing the rocks used in landscaping...
...British Artist Gerald Scarfe, this week's cover assignment offered an unusual challenge. TV commercials, he decided, called for something more than the exercise of his satirical pen; nor did one of his papier-maā écartoon sculptures, which had served so well for the Beatles (TIME cover, Sept. 22) and John Kenneth Galbraith (TIME cover, Feb. 16) seem quite right for this subject. Scarfe closeted himself in a New York hotel room for more than a week, watching TV day in, day out concentrating on the commercials and ignoring the programs...
...first Beatle to marry, fathered the first Beatle baby, and now an older John Lennon, 27, is meditating about the first Beatle divorce. After six years of marriage and one son, John has split with Wife Cynthia, 27, and is all about London with Japanese-born avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, 34. "I love Yoko," said John. Yet there's a hang-up-she's still hitched to U.S. Film Director Anthony Cox. Small matter. "I don't think that marriage is the end product of love," explained John...
...artists shown, 39% were born or are living in the U.S. But Documenta makes no case for a U.S. monopoly on styles. The sprightly satires of Britons Richard Hamilton and David Hockney hang in the same gallery with their better-known U.S. pop equivalents, such as Tom Wesselmann and Robert Indiana. Indeed, it is Documenta's unity that last week prompted Sculptress Louise Nevelson to remark: "Usually an artist works in loneliness. But here, one suddenly experiences the kinship one always suspects one might have with the rest of the artistic world...