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Transatlantic? By 1963, British engineers had solved the clearance problem by equipping hovercraft with rubberized canvas skirts several feet long. Although the skirts were strong enough to contain the pressurized air-enabling hovercraft to rise several feet above the ground-they were flexible enough to brush over solid obstacles and...
Something That Suggests. Hopper sold his first painting, a canvas called Sailing, for $250 in the 1913 Armory Show. But popularity was slow in coming. It was not until 1923, after an agonizing decade during which he did commercial illustrations, that he sold his second. By the 1930s he had...
But by far the most frabjous funnyman in town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and...
Disintegrating Canvas. But in shifting from oil to oils, Meadows' luck and his eye for a bargain failed him. Last December he invited in Dallas Art Dealer Donald Vogel to discuss putting some of his French masterpieces up for sale. "It was a crushing experience," Vogel recalls. "When I...
Much of the show's popularity was undoubtedly traceable to its carnival aspects. Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the...