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...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...
...dogs in Birmingham '63. Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz' blinding checkerboard or in Ellsworth Kelly's triad of yellow tongues. Pop art's proponent is James Rosenquist's Morning Sun, with a plastic awning rising to stifle a billboard model's yawn...
HAROLD STEVENSON-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Eyebrows will go up from Manhattan to Idabel, Okla. (the artist's home town) at his billboard-size The New Adam in the buff. Also on display are 17 other samples of Stevenson's exquisite gigantism, including The Right Eye of Sal Mineo with lashes as long as shoestrings. Through...