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Chance-the random drip, the unsought image-bulked large as an issue among New York painters then. Liberman built chance into his work in a typically calculated way. He planned his accidents. Two early pictures in the show were done by tossing poker chips onto a canvas, marking where they...
Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...
"A mini-Czechoslovakia," said one disconsolate painter as he walked away with a ripped canvas. "Now you know what they mean by socialist realism in art," said another. Five painters were arrested and charged with "petty hooliganism" for trying to resist the bulldozers. By week's end all had...
The Fogg is exhibiting a group of Italian and Spanish oil paintings from the Baroque period in Gallery XII. The apintings, done in the 17th and 18th centuries on canvas and panel, were chosen for the show by John Rodger Lane, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts...
They love Caldwell because she does indeed know how to put on opera. As a producer and director, she has long since proved her wit, good taste and knack for motivating stage people. She has also emerged in the past few seasons as an uncommonly gifted conductor who waddles to...