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...Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone I don't want all this stuff bought at auction by some thin-lipped banker for his home in Peekskill. Not that...
...Picks What? The $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, won by Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, is supposed to go, explains Curator Lawrence Alloway, to "the great wherever seen. When Harry Guggenheim started the whole thing in 1956, he saw the prizes as a kind of equivalent of the Nobel Prize, something that was awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel...
...criticism for both methods and effects. Because of the sheer size of the task, it is virtually impossible for a jury or a single individual to be comprehensive in selecting entries, and the job is always complicated by the very rules intended to simplify it. Alloway of the Guggenheim was limited to choosing five artists per nation-equating the U.S. with Israel, for example-and also tried to make his choice from among artists born between 1900 and 1920, a restriction that bars both Patriarch Pa blo Picasso and the pushy princelings of Pop. Finding an unbiased jury is hard...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with the 1963 New York Film Critics' top awards for their work in Hud (Miss Neal) and Torn Jones (Finney and Richardson...