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BORIS MARGO-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. In Memoriam, one of Margo's "sculptured canvases," is a tall (eight-foot) tribute to President Kennedy. On canvas stretched over wood, the artist traced an elaborate calligraphy with sand. At first it seems to be Sanskrit, but on study English words emerge. Other pieces, of varying shape and material, employ other languages. Through June...
ROBERT INDIANA-Stable, 33 East 74th. Like the young visionary Hart Crane, who saw the Brooklyn Bridge from his window 40 years ago and hymned it in verse, Robert Indiana, painter of the American Dream, sees the bridge every day from his studio. In homage to the poet he committed...
MARGO HOFF-Banfer, 23 East 67th. She composes her collage paintings by layering tissue and rice paper on oil and canvas, adds effects with pencil, pastel, ink or charcoal. Her colors glow, but the works come to life when the artist introduces scraps of paper such as wedding confetti, wine...
The Wurdalak, longest and scariest episode in the picture, represents that hoary old horror, Boris Karloff, as an East European vampire who carries somebody's head around in a canvas sack, and one dark night, while everybody is sleeping, tears the throat out of his four-year-old grandson...
Math Book Muse. A slight, trim, brunette bachelor girl, Bridget Riley is now a Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional...