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A small wiry man with an intense stare and a manic thirst for promotion, Christo, 41, is no stranger to large projects. He first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christo: Plain and Fency | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Gentlemanly and discreet, with faces like silver teapots, the better art dealers and auctioneers around London's Bond Street have long maintained their immunity from the scandals of the art world. Circumspection is the motto, coupled with a standing policy-among members of the British Antique Dealers Association-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palming Off the Palmers | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Braden's indoor classrooms have enough electronic TV gadgetry, cameras, screens, replay devices and tapes to make the average TV newsroom look medieval. When his students are not having balls shot at them or stroking backhands into canvas practice funnels set up like spokes on a wheel, they listen to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

There were other emblems of modernity too. The birch-and-canvas aircraft that look to us like trembling old dragonflies but were the Concordes of their time seldom became a painter's subject: Delaunay made them so with Homage to Blériot, 1913-14. It is a marvelously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delaunay's Flying Discs | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Died. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, a founder of the German expressionist school of painting; in West Berlin. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff joined with several other rebelling art students to form a group known as die Brticke (the Bridge) and to search for an art form and sensibility to replace impressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1976 | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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