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...crisis control center in Stavanger, Norway, stood by to help, while aircraft were warned to stay clear of the area. A small fleet of recovery ships deployed booms to contain the oil so it could be collected, but their work was hampered by heavy seas. Two American experts, Asger ("Boots") Hansen and Richard ("Toots") Hatteberg, flew in from Texas to try to cap the well, and encountered more problems than they had expected. High winds stymied their earliest attempts to get aboard the platform; later a potentially dangerous gas buildup around the wellhead forced them to retreat temporarily. Using brass...
...ASGER JORN, 50, a Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...
SALUTE TO DENMARK-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Steering a course through folklore, these modern Danes find a fresh amalgam of fantasy and feeling, aptly tagged "abstractions which are living fables." Carl-Henning Pedersen. Asger Torn. Eljer Bille, Henry Heerup, Mogens Balle. Egill Jacobsen and Preben Wölck, most for the first time in the U.S. Through March...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
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