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Onlookers are not always sure whether what they see is in fact either caustic or witty, and whether they ought to laugh or snarl. Claes Oldenburg dug a grave and refilled it, calling it "an underground sculpture." Paul Thek displayed a lifelike sculpture of himself as a cadaver. Christo Javacheff, 33, a be spectacled Bulgarian-born artist, expresses his wit by wrapping things-earth, hay, nudes, wheelbarrows and bottles...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who set out to show what the museum would look like if its building were wrapped in canvas and tied up with rope. Museum Curator William S. Rubin found Christo's ideas, with or without the rope to hang them by, a "poetic" comment on packaging, which has "become...
...Gallery put on a one-man show titled "Store Fronts," which is all they were: a row of fullscale, blank and well-lighted store fronts made of metal with Plexiglas windows backed by brown wrapping paper. The artist is a 30-year-old Bulgarian escapee from Soviet Realism named Christo, who has lived in New York since...
...Connie Christo brought to the part of the maid a bedraggled appearance and a resigned way of walking and speaking which well confirmed her statement at the end of the play that she has been a party to these lethal teacher student relations forty times a day ever since they began. The conclusion of the play inspires the monstrous vision of an endless succession of hapless pupils each turning up for the lesson which is to prepare her for adulthood, only to be done in and coffined by her instructor...
...many as five translators to relay Billy's words. And they will be up against stiff competition from non-Christian groups, notably the growing numbers of Moslems, and many offbeat Christian sects, such as Ghana's Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, and the Musama Disco Christo Church...