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...nearly a decade, or since Robert Rauschenberg hung a tire on a stuffed goat and Andy Warhol began painting the soup can, artists have labored to create simple, obvious public art. They used colors that screamed; painting was likely to have hard-edged forms; sculpture was geometric, intended as focal points in plazas. Today the trend is in the opposite direction: artists are deliberately going underground. Even though they may use people as part of their sculptures-as does Byars-their purposes remain arcane and enigmatic...
...most ambitious Polk project, sociological profiles of entire cities, was started four years ago. After last year's Detroit riots, for example, Polk supplied the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders with data about the 12th Street area, a focal point of the upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most...
Onto the screen flashes a shiny red dot, which turns out to be a maraschino cherry, which turns out to sit atop a chocolate sundae, which turns out to be the focal point for a swirling phantasmagoria of color. All of which, it also turns out, is a 60-second videotape commercial for a venerable Manhattan-based restaurant chain. "The chocolate sundae," proclaims a credit line that rolls diagonally across the TV tube, was "photographed for Schrafft's by Andy Warhol...
...academic year, universities the world over will apparently continue to be focal points of alienation, disruption and dissent. Last week New York University grappled with the problems created by the presence of a black extremist on its staff; a number of U.S. university presidents were openly discussing how to handle the prospect of future campus disorders; and in France, an adventuresome Education Minister won legislative 'approval of reforms that might prevent a repetition of this spring's student rebellion...
...overt action against the regime. Their protest mainly takes the from of making jokes against the colonels, who allegedly lead lurid personal lives. A small number of pamphlets circulate around Athens but there is no real, well-organized opposition. No leader exists who can act as a focal point for resistance...