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Still another approach falls into the whimsical or even bizarre category, such as Judy Kensley McKie's glass-topped tables supported by attenuated, Giacometti-like mahogany dogs. McKie, 38, of Cambridgeport, Mass., sold one of her $3,600 doggy tables to Joan Mondale for the vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C. Alan Siegel, 43, of Lake Hill, N.Y., recently exhibited a bent poplar chair that looks, he suggests, like "a smiling bandit." Other well-known "fun" pieces include a table by Wendell Castle, 50, of Scottsville, N.Y., with a carved wood hat and briefcase...
...technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even so, his work has a way of wandering off into a pointless anecdotalism, as with his tabletop sculpture of a tract home he once lived in, entitled-in a maladroit homage to Giacometti-The Palace...
...School of Paris would produce. The show has a fine selection of Jean Dubuffet's work from that time, the scrawl-and-cow-flop portraits, subway figures and fat nudes that elicited reams of indignant protest from the guardians of le beau et le bien. Quite properly, Alberto Giacometti's wiry bronze isolates are given a room to themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there are surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just...
DIED. Julien Levy, 75, influential art dealer and writer whose gallery was a center during the 1930s and '40s for surrealism and neoromanticism, presenting the first New York exhibitions of such artists as Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray and Joseph Cornell; in New Haven, Conn...
...younger, and all its possibilities were open to his ravening eye, in those three decades between 1907 and 1937. He was the most influential artist of his own time; for many lesser figures a catastrophic influence, and for those who could deal with him ? from Braque, through Giacometti, to de Kooning and Arshile Gorky ? an almost indescribably fruitful...