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...most highly regarded of Stirling's West German works is the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. Avant-garde critics of architecture have lauded the new museum addition...
...heroes are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the prince and princess of the avant-garde underworld. Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Warhol and Sedgwick comprise but one pair of a cult-worshipped court of legendary hearts handed the scepter and deposed just as quietly by generations of kids searching casually for heroes. I ask her why she likes Warhol...
...behind the tired battlefields of ideological tug-of-wars over sexual libidos. The new challenge it confronts, instead, is one of internal harmony; of coordinating theory and practice within a newly mobilized body hetero-politic. Even the notorious schism between French and Anglo feminisms--one noted for its theoretical avant-garde elegance, the other for its sensible economics--is really a matter of secret vanity; in actuality, it is an intellectualized space for self-consciously trying out new images of both feminists and women, thus transforming their cultural representations through selfexpression...
DIED. Julian Beck, 60, avant-garde actor-director who with his wife Judith Malina founded and for 38 years ran the influential Living Theater, which used improvisation and superrealistic horror effects to shock audiences and express their pacifism and dissent from society, in such productions as The Connection (1959), The Brig (1963) and Frankenstein (1965); of cancer; in New York City...
...aired in Washington last week when she and kindred spirits appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to thrash out rock's putative excesses. Gore faced at least one friendly face on the committee: her husband, the Democratic Senator from Tennessee. The opposition included such music-business figures as Rock Avant-Gardist Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Whatever their political effects, the hearings were certainly high on entertainment value...