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...century. Occasionally, there emerges from the scrum of picture salesmen a dealer with an almost mediumistic sense of the art of his time and place. Genius, of a sort, is needed to pick geniuses, and in the past 75 years fewer than a dozen art dealers, from Kahnweiler to Castelli, have had it. Vollard was their great prototype...
Group shows range from the very far-out (drawings by Robert Barry and Germany's Hanne Darboven, among others, at Leo Castelli, 4 E. 77th St.) through "classical" modernism (Jules Olitski and other color-field artists at Knoedler Contemporary Art (19 E. 70th St.) to a diverting collection of views of New York by American artists (John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois at the Hammer Galleries, 51 E. 57th...
Private Activity. Recently the Cornell estate, consisting of hundreds of unsold boxes and collages, passed into the hands of a consortium of dealers-Leo Castelli, Richard Feigen and James Corcoran. Last week a show of 43 Cornell boxes went on view at the Castelli Gallery in Manhattan. Until the inevitable retrospective-for a whole Cornell industry is now tooling up-one could not wish for a better introduction to this singular artist...
...this role, it grips him, and he turns into a vulgar monster-something like Salvador Dali. If he fights it and reflects the blame for it on the audience (where it belongs), he may, with luck, come to resemble Robert Rauschenberg, whose latest prints-after a run at the Castelli Gallery in New York City-are on view at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles...
...will survive in its present form is an open question. Sir Anthony Blunt, one of England's leading art historians, flatly declares that "Picasso is no longer a modern painter," and that "after 1945, he ceased to hold the leading position in modern painting." Says Manhattan Dealer Leo Castelli: "Picasso is not an important force in modern painting now. But he is still an incredibly important figure because of what he's been. He's not just a great painter. He's one of the towering figures of this century and all times. He goes along...