Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each exhibitor was given an eight-foot square white flat and told to fill it; a ridiculous idea, to put the frame before the picture. The result is predictably scrappy--Ted Spagna is three large black and white photographs and one color sequence are fit into the space, but none of the four bear any relation to each other above and beyond contiguity...
Only time will tell whether "the Russian Woodstock" (as one French diplomat called it) signals the beginning of an end to Soviet insistence on cultural conformity. Said one exhibitor: "We are skeptics by experience. Perhaps this will be the start of a great tradition, or perhaps there will just be more repression." In any case, the success of the show has already had its impact on other Soviet artists. A group of iconoclastic Moscow poets are talking about asking permission to hold a public outdoor reading of their proscribed verse...
...dark, heavily hatched corners. Several titles are indicative: "Late Bourgeois Heroic," "Turning Into Gardens," "The Old and New Left." Ackermann has seized on the idea of "stripping away bourgeois facades" to show buildings with their fronts removed, their walls punctured or crumbling. Compared to his co-exhibitor, however, Ackermann lacks total control over the multiple, complicated line which builds up his compositions--a line working well enough in treating buildings, but marring the forms of plants or people with instances of just plain bad drawing. It is as if he couldn't draw the emerging new order because it hasn...
Porn and Corn. According to one count, some 720 of the U.S.'s 14,450 moviehouses are specializing in skin flicks, a 60% increase since 1968. Sexploitation movies seem to be past their prime in some areas, newly blooming in others. Chicago Exhibitor Herschell...
Lewis believes that audiences in the area are sated. "After you go so many times, you get bored. There's very little difference in genitalia, even between the genitalia of a star and the genitalia of some unknown." But in Atlanta, Exhibitor Moscow says, "You'd be surprised at the nice ladies who like those raunchy movies. It's snob appeal, hobnobbing with the riffraff...