Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concord Art Gallery at 82 Charles St. on Beacon Hill is showing the works of a man named John Ulbricht and his wife, Angela Von Neuman. Ulbricht has the distinction of being President Ford's portrait artist. I remember hearing that Betty Ford's portrait was sent back by the White House curator for being disproportionally larger than those of other first ladies...
Thus one can be a good artist and be recognized as such by artists without surrendering ones particularism, be a good unionist without ceasing to be an Irish Catholic, or be a good member of the Harvard community without discarding one's blackness, Jewishness, Catholicness, femaleness, etc. The role of a given institution--a university, union, corporation--in facilitating this dialectically intricate pluralism does not require, however, total surrender of its native subcultural attributes, its particularistic tendency. It need only forgo the nativist phobia: the fear that pluralism (coexistence of values, forms, styles) necessarily destroys particularism...
...actually, McCann--the program's first artist-in-residence--was itching to play some himself...
Jazz musician Anthony Braxton, who conducted a similar workshop last Thursday in Adams House, was the series' first artist to come to Harvard...
Defeated, Clague last month moved out of his plush offices at the 24-story Hutchison House on Hong Kong's waterfront. His bank-picked successor is Conglomerate Rescue Artist William Wyllie; a four-man caretaker team, in consultation with Wyllie, has moved to sell off some of Hutchison's holdings. To raise $5 million, they peddled an 18% interest in a British investment firm. Company insiders expect that a commercial helicopter subsidiary may be sold off or folded, while management control of a merchant banking affiliate will be divested. Hutchison has also been selling off shares of other...