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...apply," Bethell says, and most of the changes in the Bulletin this fall reflect his passion for making it readable. The cover has been jazzed up with the addition of banner headlines to entice readers to articles inside. More and more the Bulletin has assumed a recognizable organization, as bric-a-brac like letters and book reviews appear issue after issue in the same part of the magazine. Bethell has added humorous pictures and a news-style headline to give the traditional sports column (always about two weeks behind) an illusion of being up to the minute...
Hill can needle too, and he does it with an admirably straight face. Under his wry direction, John Neville and Donald Houston play Holmes and Watson with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily presents the doctor as a tintype of the ruddy regimental; Neville dryly displays the detective as a standard Victorian eccentric, an intellectual who beneath a mask of pedantry conceals a sad little secret: he is really just a middle-class boy who never quite made Eton and never quite...
...sense, the manufacture of art is packaging the world. In the process, landscape, bric-a-brac and dreams may end up bundled together like tiny attics whose contents are reminiscent of the character of mankind. Joseph Cornell is just such an archivist, boxing trinkets that Huckleberry Finn might have put in his pockets, together with talismans as portentous as astronomical charts...
Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...
...office, go out to mind his stores. Dressed in his $32.50 Korvette suit, he fusses, fixes problems, scolds and cajoles salespeople. He fondles marked-down books and basketballs as if they were emeralds; in the art galleries of his stores, he browses proudly around the Picassos, Chagalls and other bric-a-Braque. "I," says Ferkauf, "love to go to the marketplace...