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Gallery openings in Manhattan are beginning to rival the opera in silken elegance and the subway for sheer squeeze. Last week's opening of the new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery looked as if it was getting in the last word, if not the entire madding crowd in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In chilly evening winds, great red and green banners flapped from flagpoles outside the gallery's sixth floor facade above 57th Street. Nothing could dissuade the 2,50 art lovers, beehives and beatle-cuts alike, from donning black tie and white brocade theater coats to come...
Though Marlborough-Gerson is reputedly the world's largest gallery (11,000 sq. ft.), the place was so packed that at the height of the party, invited guests could not even get out of the elevator. Finally, firemen ordered the doors closed to newcomers until the crowd cleared. It was really too late. "You can't see the pictures," moaned a lovely thing in a floor-scraping green gown. "You can't even see the people. You can just feel them...
...Harvard students should protest vigorously against the university's highhanded disregard for academic freedom. Demand that the Harvard Summer Socialist Club be reinstated with full rights and privileges Gerson Horowitz Chairman, Harvard Summer Socialist Club
...next year there will be a branch of Marlborough in Cologne. In New York carpenters and plasterers are busy converting one entire floor-all 11,000 sq. ft. of it-of an office building on 57th Street and Madison Avenue into what will be known as the Marlborough-Gerson* Gallery...
...more eclectic of the better dealers is polyglot George Staempfli, whose wares range from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start...