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...reading room of the British Museum Library, might have missed the anniversary altogether had it not been for a comic squabble at the Greater London Council. When left-leaning Labor Party members in the city government voted to spend $53,000 on centenary observances, Conservative Spokesman Stanley Bolton reacted with predictable ire. "We don't owe anything to Marx," he said. "We owe more to Harpo and his brothers than Karl...
...work of David Smith at the National Gallery in Washington, which opened last November and will run until late April, is the most important show by an American sculptor in years. Smith died in 1965, when his pickup truck spun off a country road near his studio in Bolton Landing, an isolated little town in the Adirondacks. He was 58 and in the prime of his sculptural career. Only Jackson Pollock's fatal car crash nine years earlier subtracted so much, so soon, from American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since. If one measures...
...survive against it in all their magnificent variety. This is not a complete retrospective. It concentrates on the years of Smith's maturity as a sculptor, starting in 1951 with the Agricola series-"drawings in air" made, as often as not, from abandoned farm implements he collected around Bolton Landing-and finishing with the Cubis, a series incomplete at his death. In those 14 years, one may say without exaggeration, Smith explored the possibilities of welded metal sculpture more fully than any artist before or since-more, even, than Picasso or Julio González, from whom he first...
...wrynecked tongs to the ponderous, archaic-looking iron wagons and barrows used to run hot forgings from one part of the work floor to another. From these he made 27 sculptures in one month, and then had the leftovers shipped back to the U.S. to complete the Voltri-Bolton series...
...Africa. Founded in Detroit in 1968, the all-black organization never numbering more than 30 sought the creation of an independent black nation carved out of Southern states as "reparation for oppression of blacks in America." To further this aim, the group established a national "capital" near Bolton, Miss., in 1971. In recent years the R.N.A. has become associated with the B.L.A., and is said to have been quietly giving paramilitary training to youths...