Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anachronistic; its diversity makes it seem a collage of pages from a sketchbook; its pretentious setting heightens all its weaknesses. Somewhat ambiguously, the museum bills the mural as "the world's largest painting"; viewers go away feeling that they have seen the world's largest hand-painted billboard...
Tokyo being Tokyo and gadget-minded Japanese being gadget-minded Japanese, some campaigner for municipal quiet has dreamed up the idea of erecting an electronic billboard to measure Nishi-Ginza's sound level, translate it into phons (decibels), and transmit it in illuminated numbers to a populace presumably shamed into silence. There it stands, beside a bold sign proclaiming BE MORE QUIET! THE NOISE AT THIS MOMENT: 78 PHONS. STANDARD FOR RESIDENTIAL AREA: 50 PHONS. BUSY CORNERS: 70 PHONS...
...photography may be a dying art, but on one front it is still going strong-at the Italian villa occupied by Robustious Swedish Cinemactress Anita Ekberg, 32, and her American actor-husband, Rik Van Nutter. Anita these days could practically play the mountainous billboard heroine of Boccaccio '70 with out any trick camera work, and, bugged by shutterbugs, she understandably responds with whatever comes to hand. Last week it was a rifle with telescopic sights, and she spent a busy few minutes sniping away at a photographer in a tree a few hundred feet from the manse. Fact...
This simple lyric, laminated to a catching tune, is on Billboard's list of the "Hot 100" singles, comfortably ahead of Tell Me Baby and catching up with Young and in Love. What it is doing in that league is anybody's guess. Its theme is not love, but development housing...
JAMES ROSENQUIST-Green, 15 West 57th. This former billboard painter is quite accustomed to seeing and painting things larger than life: his latest three-dimensional work is unfortunately a gross exaggeration. The flat canvases with their toothy grins and giant tire treads had more shock; his newest "new realism" suffers from artificiality. Through Feb. 8. Down the street at Janis, 15 East 57th, Rosenquist, Jim Dine, George Segal and Claes Oldenburg create "Four Environments." Each artist has a room of his own: Oldenburg, for example, a bedroom, Segal a movie theater. Through...