Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocking-pink monuments, paintings of mountainous breasts and blinking assemblages inside and outside the ornate, Graustarkian palaces. Once again it was time for the staid city of Kassel-in West Germany to come to hypermodern life. It happens every four years. The occasion is Documenta, an international exhibit that on three previous occasions established a reputation as the most comprehensive survey of new art anywhere...
...Speak with remotely situated friends at the exhibit over a Picturephone that transmits both sound and visual images...
...exhibit will run into September. And, just as if visitors need a reminder of the hot and noisy New York summer outside, they will be able to watch, on closed-circuit TV, the bustling Avenue of the Americas where it runs between the Radio City Music Hall and the Time & Life Building...
Still, aside from the U.S. exhibit, there were numerous diversions. At the British pavilion, there was a dizzyingly impressive retrospective of Bridget Riley's op eyebinders, and the slender, stark sculptures of Phillip King-possibly the only man alive who has successfully united the minimal and the baroque. In the Japanese pavilion, the most promising young artist was clearly Jiro Takamatsu, 32, whose large-scale pastel platforms were built on weird exaggerations of Renaissance perspective, aimed at destroying the balance between real and imaginary worlds...
Aided by such latent discontent, the students achieved maximum results with a minimum of effort. Several dozen pranced sporadically around and through the exhibition grounds. Others countered the tenors serenading tourists' gondolas by singing the Internationale or scuffled desultorily with police in the Piazza San Marco. The commissioner of the Swedish pavilion backed them up, explaining that the 1,000 police swarming about the grounds created "a spiritual climate in which we could not present works." The Russian exhibit arrived late. Three of the four artists in the French pavilion closed their exhibits...