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...York Times Art Critic John Canaday, describing Barr as the "most powerful tastemaker in American art today," called Barr's statement a "body blow" to abstract expressionism, the impulsive painting of things unrecognizable, hoping for fortuitous results. "There is not a dealer in town, nor a collector, nor yet a painter who hopes to hang in the Museum of Modern Art who doesn't study each of Mr. Barr's syllables. If Mr. Barr sees a 'new concern with figure,' there is going to be a rush toward the art stores where those little books...
...patient, and only booed the intruding fireman (who may have remembered that the Modern was almost destroyed by fire a scant two years ago). What the connoisseurs witnessed for their pains was an unbeautiful joke with no punch line. As the New York Times's Critic John Canaday gently put it: "Mr. Tinguely makes fools of machines while the rest of mankind permits machines to make fools of them. Tinguely's machine wasn't quite good enough, as a machine, to make his point...
Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
...between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times; "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting...
Others in the cast include Mikel Lambert, Judith Gilmartin, Walter Leeds, James Gross, Linda Gertsenfeld, Rab Hatfield and Joel Blatt. John Grace designed settings that improve as the play goes on and lighting was arranged by Rudd Canaday...