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...Futurist Marshall McLuhan, who has written books such as Understanding Media to explain that books are extinct, used the medium of his mouth at the International P.E.N. Congress in Manhattan to tell the 600 assembled novelists, poets and playwrights just where they will stand in the future. "We are about to see an age where the environment itself is arranged as a teaching machine," he lectured delphically. "The author is going to be engaged in programming the teaching machine." McLuhan unsettled the writers further with a slogan: "Artists should go to the control tower, not the ivory tower." But they...
...shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist, Giacomo Balla, and dated 1912, is clearly a harbinger...
...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...