Word: futurist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Academy of Arts and Sciences helps to support the Commission on the Year 2000, headed by Columbia Sociologist Daniel Bell. The Ford Foundation has allocated $1,400,000 this year to a group called Resources for the Future, also supports a Paris-based organization, headed by Veteran Futurist Bertrand de Jouvenel, whose studies are known as "Les Futuribles...
...population will have risen to about 330 million, and nine out of ten Americans will be living in supercities or their suburbs. But cities, like industry, will tend to decentralize; with instant communications, it will no longer be necessary for business enterprises to cluster together. Futurist Marshall McLuhan even foresees the possibility that many people will stay at home, doing their work via countrywide telecommunication...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th St. The first retrospective show since Futurist Joseph Stella's death in 1946 fills two floors with his paintings, collages and drawings. Among 100 works is his most ambitious, New York Interpreted, a five-canvas panorama that glows with dark lapidary lights. Through Dec. 4. More Stella at Salpeter Gallery, 42 East 57th St. Twenty-two pastels, drawings and silverpoints. Through...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th St. The first retrospective show since Futurist Joseph Stella's death in 1946 fills two floors with his paintings, collages and drawings. Among 100 works is his most ambitious, New York Interpreted, a five-canvas panorama that glows with dark lapidary lights. Through Dec. 4. Complementing the retrospective, a show at Schoelkopf Gallery, 825 Madison Ave. at 69th St., offers paintings, gouaches, drawings and collages from all periods of Stella's career. Through...
...Germany. During this term he also led a seminar in European socialism and communism in the interwar period; he has written a book on the Second International, and another on Three Intellectuals in Politics, Leon Blum, Walther Rathenau, and F.T. Marinetti. The last of the three, the Italian futurist painter who had so much in common with D'Anaunzio, is an especially illuminating corner of Joll's work: he confesses to fascination with the "links between artistic and social and political development" in this century, between "the breakdown of conventions in the arts...and the growing interest in why people...