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...eleven movies are good, short, and original. Since the film makers draw upon limited training and finances, the simpler films seem to be more successful. Two time-lapse films, one done by Derek Lamb's class and Robert Gardner's, illustrate the point. Gardner's film is of Calder directing the construction of his Great Sail at M.I.T. The movie has synchronized sound, color and a Great Man's Face--all of which Lamb's House Moving lack. But Gardner's materials are a bit out of control. He leaves Calder mumbling inaudible marvelous-old-man-isms, as if through...
...help make it so, Dayton's joined with other Minneapolis merchants last fall to develop a downtown shopping mall, graced it with a "mobile-stabile" Alexander Calder sculpture and remodeled its main store so that passersby could look directly into colorful boutiques rather than at mere window-display manikins. For the past two Christmases, it has outfitted the store's 12,000-sq.-ft. auditorium with a $250,000 "Dickens Village," complete with two-story, thatched-roof buildings and animated figures of Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. It recently staged an extravaganza for college-age youths, featuring...
...tried dozens of different ways to express "the spirit of the thing." Some ornate fantasies, like The Harlequin's Carnival, became popular immediately, but others had to wait decades for their audiences. His 1930 Painting is as elemental and totemic as a mobile by Calder -or any painting that would be turned out by New York's abstract expressionists in the 1950s...
...case of New Orleans-bred Lillian Florsheim, ex-wife of the late Shoe Manufacturer Irving Florsheim, art appreciation has led herto both collecting and creating art herself. Her constructions are composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder and Gabo. For the past two years, she has held shows at Chicago's Main Street Galleries, has sold work to Collectors Mayer, Bergman and Connecticut's Joseph Hirshhorn...
...influenced by the music. Themes? "Supply your own," he says. Yet for all his seeming whimsy, Cunningham is a dancer and choreographer with serious intentions. He wants to take chances, shift the angles of balance, create new patterns that will be as distinctly different as the mobiles of Alexander Calder...