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...whom live in the same complex of garden apartments. In the first segment last week, a 16-year-old girl (Debbie Watson) drove to an airport to pick up an Italian exchange student who was to be her blind date for a school prom. Instead, she picked up Alberto Giacometti, or his equivalent, a world-famous Italian sculptor, who happened to be passing through with a sensational bronze nude in his hand...
...Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...
...Giacometti has taken to applying paint to his febrile bronze figures, and explained to visitors that he had never liked the metal's brown color anyway. He rhapsodized that life was more valuable than art, saying, "Even if a rat gnawed on a Rembrandt, I would refuse to kill it to save the painting." The artists had a ball...
...Giacometti, from Cezanne to Soutine, from an early Picasso to the latest Henry Moore, on such a scale that no museum or private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...
SUNDAY (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). A special program devoted entirely to the remodeled and about-to-reopen Museum of Modern Art, narrated by Aline Saarinen and featuring films of interviews with Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Stuart Davis in their homes or studios...