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...immense Joan Miró tapestry and Robert Motherwell's Reconciliation Elegy, the largest and possibly the last (since democracy has now been restored in Spain) of his 30-year series of Elegies for the Spanish Republic. Hovering over and animating the whole central space is a huge mobile by Alexander Calder, feathery light despite its size, and lazily responding to every air current. Smaller spaces are reserved for changing exhibitions, and in this the galleries at each of the levels succeed very well, as do the tower rooms reached by skylighted stairways...
...Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from Port Arthur to El Paso, and it must give him a kick to play a role of fatherly support for Hank Jr., to hear those lines "Waylon and Toy (Calder) are my only boys, I want to say thanks to you/Your fiddle and your steel made me play what I feel and I don't feel lovesick blues." Waylon documented his own Hank Williams problem a few years ago with "Are You Sure Hank Done It This...
...into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque, bears a strong resemblance to the productions of certain modern artists. Artisia Calderii recalls the work of the late American sculptor Alexander Calder; Artisia Arpii shows an amazing similarity to the collages of Jean...
...sprawling concrete flatlands spiked with 135-ft.-tall cranes that hoist the 20-to 40-ft.-long containers onto and off ships. As late as 1970, Boston had no facilities for handling container ships; today 90% of all cargo passing through the port moves in vans. Says Robert Calder, executive director of the Boston Shipping Association: "The shift from freighters to container ships is no less a revolution than the transition from the sailing ship to the steamship...
Soft-Core Reality. A series of shorts on wacky subjects: a rampaging native plant of Georgia called Kudzu, the miniature circus Alexander Calder made out of odds and ends and could bring to life for his friends, and a celebration of pigs splashing around in their slop. Six shorts...