Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual event-the one now in progress is the 802nd. But this year there is a new sound to the old show: while some 70 nations display their wares, Communists and capitalists alike are clamoring for increased East-West trade. Says Cristina Dimitriu, director of Rumania's exhibit: "We are now interested more in business than in propaganda." Says Poland's Natalia Czaplicka: "We will sell anything to anybody...
About the only sour note was struck by East Germany's intransigent Walter Ulbricht, an old Communist who has yet to come in from the cold. Ulbricht lavished praise on the Soviet Union's exhibit-considered by most Western fairgoers to be Russia's most mediocre in years. And he notably managed to ignore the fair's biggest (and perhaps best) exhibit: that of West Germany...
...Form," declared Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, "is the foundation and the condition of all things. Smoke itself should be rendered by a line." Fittingly, the exhibit commemorating the centennial of his death, which opens at Harvard's Fogg Museum this week, concentrates on his drawings and water-colors (see color). For it was through the lines of his draftsmanship that Ingres was able to reconcile the stern classical disciplines of the 18th century with 19th century Romantic sensuality...
...even newer and no less gifted generation of moviemakers-Ben Van Meter, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Baillie-is rising with a whir. Romantic, rebellious and vaguely worried, the new boys come on like strangers in a world they never scripted. Some of them celebrate the horrors of modern life. They exhibit America as an air-conditioned cemetery for the walking dead, the war in Viet Nam as pure hell, and L.BJ. as a rather silly devil with his tail in hot water...
...cinema seriously expect to keep the underground overground? Jonas Mekas is certain that the answer is yes. He has organized a Film-Makers Cooperative to rent experimental films; he has 600 films in his catalogue and a growing list of theaters all across the U.S. lined up to exhibit them. "You might say," Mekas murmurs with a sly little grin, "that the lunatics are taking over the asylum." Nothing necessarily wrong with that. Every so often an art needs to go a little crazy...