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Halfback Carl Garrett was suspended yesterday by the New England Patriots for the rest of the season. Garrett, the team's leading ground gainer, was suspended by interim head coach Phil Bengston and general manager. Upton Bell after he missed yesterday's practice...
...spectrum, the Los Angeles look can be seen in Billy Al Bengston's "dentos"-crumpled aluminum sheets with depths of shimmering, candied and gaseous sprayed color trapped under layers of glossy acrylic. At the other, it is apparent in the prismatic bloom of Larry Bell's immaculate glass boxes, and in Robert Irwin's pale disks floating into immateriality above their own cast shadows. The "look" is always playing games with media (where but in L.A. would an artist do drawings in caviar and gunpowder, as Ed Ruscha did?) and it stops just this side of fetishism...
Earthy Aphorist. If the public was slow to discover Blair, young avant-garde artists were not. Such radicals as Edward Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston forgathered at the old house Blair had bought in Los Angeles, admired his paintings and delighted in his company. Blair always gave them coffee (he kept careful records on just how each guest preferred it) and his own home-baked bread, for which he won many prizes at county fairs. Afterward, everybody pitched horseshoes in the backyard and listened to Blair's inexhaustible tales of his and other people's pasts. His speech...
...approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold, and the sheet of lacquered aluminum from Los Angeles' Billy Al Bengston (representative of what one Whitney curator dubbed California's "finish fetish"). But abstraction as an end in itself is on the wane. Artists everywhere are tending to combine it with figurative elements, or give their abstractions the illusion of three-dimensional space. One shaped canvas by Washington...
Outdoorsy Place. "We frankly can hardly wait to see the Renaissance stuff," says Billy Al Bengston, one of Los Angeles' pop artists. He is hardly alone. Although the doors will not officially open until this week, museum memberships (at $10 each) have been rolling in at the rate of 200 a day for months. Director Brown expects more than 2,000,000 visitors in the first year, and one aide fears that it might reach...