Word: genauer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Frank Stella's first canvases, consisting of black pin-stripe squares inside of squares, were shown at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1960, local papers reacted in horror. "Unspeakably boring!" snapped Herald Tribune Critic Emily Genauer. A less determined man might have gone into life insurance-but Stella painted on. His latest canvases, on view at the Castelli Gallery, are newly brilliant with a rainbow of Day-Glo colors, but they are as elemental in concept as ever (see color opposite). What has changed is that instead of being banned for boredom, Stella...
...editorial. "It should make for a pretty lively page," says Conniff. Leslie Gould from the Journal-American will boss the financial page; Maurice Dolbier from the Trib and John Barkham from the Saturday Review will review books; the Trib's Walter Terry, dance; John Gruen and Emily Genauer, art; Miles Kastendieck, William Bender and Alan Rich, music. The Sunday paper, too, will carry features from the Trib: New York magazine, edited by Clay Felker; and Book Week, under Theodore Solotaroff...
Hemorrhaging Angel. In 1942, Choreographer Leonide Massine, a fellow Russian, got him to design costumes and sets for the New York Ballet Theater's production of Aleko. Critic Emily Genauer recalls walking in on the two while they were trying to explore the project. Tchaikovsky's trumpets blared over a record player, while Massine dragged Chagall around the room in an unbelievable pas de deux,. Yet somehow the collaboration worked. The premiere, which took place in Mexico in 1942, was a smash success...
...Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually in a state of profound alcoholic intoxication." A lady critic from Philadelphia was told that she would never understand art until she had an affair with an iceman; and Critic Emily Genauer, now of the New York Herald Tribune, was greeted in an anteroom by a flunky with two nasty dogs and told to go home...
Conceded the Trib: "Miss Genauer stands corrected." To make everything clear, the Trib printed a Stella...