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...Whitney's director, John Baur, agreed "because black artists have been so neglected." To organize the show, the Museum appointed Doty, who is white but had directed three earlier one-man shows by blacks at the Whitney. The B.E.C.C. asked that "a black expert on black culture" be hired as guest curator along with Doty. In a prodigious diplomatic error, the Whitney refused. Its grounds were those of precedent. "Only three of our shows in the past forty years," a museum spokesman explained, "have been organized by guest experts." But Baur did agree to consult black experts "wherever feasible...
...abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them. Bunche went with Johnson and Williams to confer with Baur at the Whitney. Was the museum, Dr. Bunche asked, specifically involved with aesthetics or polemics? Aesthetics, Baur replied. "Then why," Bunche inquired, "are you doing a black show?" William Williams puts the issue more bluntly. "We say any museum show ought to be about aesthetics, scholarship, quality. They say this...
...screen he had almost as much clout. It is axiomatic that in order to be a conservative, the individual has to have something to conserve. Wayne had made more money on horseback than Eddie Arcaro. He had property, a big rep and a new wife, Mexican-born Actress Esperanza Baur. He was Hollywood's super-American, whose unswerving motto was "Go West and turn right...
...impresario will be lanky, Connecticut-born and Yale-educated John Ireland Howe Baur, 58, the museum's associate director and the man who was in charge of getting the new Whitney Museum built. Baur plans to continue the museum's open-minded policies, expanding them in order to ensure broader representation of artists from outside New York City. "There's a bubbling over of creative energy in every direction today," he says, "and the injection of new talent and new movements gets more frenetic all the time. However, new movements tend to overshadow artists doing good work...
...Sciences at the University of Kansas will open in Lawrence this month. It will handle 450 freshmen, who will share classes, housing and dormitory advisers. All freshmen are expected to be in such a college next year, all sophomores and freshmen a year later. Kansas Sociologist E. Jackson Baur hopes it will help K.U. students to avoid falling into the type he sees at most universities: "A collection of com peting strangers who are incapable of collaborating with one another in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship...