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...current retrospective of more than 200 Giacometti sculptures, drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, there is a painting that epitomizes what he meant. It is not a figure but a still life: one solitary apple on a small sideboard, painted in 1937. The color is hardly color at all - a muddy brownish gray, smeared on the canvas with what seems to have been great effort, layer over in tractable layer. The fruit appeals to nothing but the sense of sight. It is inedible, untouchably distant, dense and gray as a little cannon ball, and so irreducible...
Guild-Like Family. He was a fastidious inheritor who left no heirs, and this seems to have been as true in the sense of family as that of cultural choice. The Guggenheim's retrospective opens with a separate exhibition - also funded by a grant from the Alcoa and Pro Helvetia Foundations - entitled Three Swiss Painters. This is the first detailed look the U.S. public has had at the work of Giacometti's family circle of gifted painters, who surrounded him with protective confidence. They are his godfather Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), his cousin Augusto Giacometti...
...Guggenheim and the five students began their work at Sangha, a village of 5000, and after a short period of orientation began to work on a single, unusually large granary in the chief's compound...
Bamako was in the midst of student demonstrations, however, and the Traore regime quickly showed that it would use force to quell any disturbance. Faced with the possibility of detention in a Mali jail, Guggenheim and the students decided to abandon the trip north and return home immediately...
...five students and Guggenheim will be collecting data and writing a report on their expedition in the next few weeks. Guggenheim will then send these to the Mali government, in hopes of organizing a similar mission to the northern areas of Mali