Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Venice's venerable Biennale should hit an alltime low this year was no real surprise to Italian critics. Over the years, they have watched it shrink in artistic importance almost in proportion to its growth as a tourist attraction. They suspect that art is not so much the...
The critics had a bit more trouble deciding on its artistic merit. Said the London Times noncommittally: "It is quite unlike anything which has been expected by many of the people who will have to live with it."
"Rome has politics, ruins and the Pope," sniffed a Milanese last week, "but Milan is the real capital of Italy-the financial, commercial, industrial, musical, artistic, theatrical, publishing, jazz and striptease capital. What more do you want?"
Will all this last? Critics can for once be definite. Whatever their artistic merits, "paintings" made out of coffee grounds, torn nylons and bits of paper are automatically stamped-PERISHABLE.
Unlike most suffering dwellers in the new ziggurats of Manhattan, the Washington Square Villagers rebelled, formed a Tenants Association (324 members) to struggle with the management. But the association proved to be too tame for Fran Weiss and some other angry tenants, who split off into a "Faction for Action...