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Fourteen faculty members will receive Guggenheim fellowships next year. Most will spend the year writing or researching...
...committee of seven professors from universities throughout the country chose the fllows from 3107 applications. Gordon N. Ray '38, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, said yesterday...
...will they? The 1981 Whitney Biennial has now arrived, along with a whole season of roundups, "direction" shows and the like. East of the Appalachians, two other major ones are running: in New York, the Guggenheim's "19 Artists-Emergent Americans," and in Washington, the Hirshhorn Museum's "Directions 1981." Among them, these three sample the work of some 150 painters, sculptors, land artists, photographers, video and film makers. Some of the artists, like Richard Diebenkora, Harry Callahan or Ellsworth Kelly, are very well known and represented by first-class work. Others, like Willem de Kooning, are equally...
...Philip Pearlstein, is hardly in evidence, although there are some exquisitely rendered pastel studies of gray, tumblng Midwestern skies by William Beckman at the Hirshhorn, and the Whitney has some beautifully observed images by William Bailey (still life) and Rackstraw Downes (panoramic landscape). The best figurative work at the Guggenheim is by the oldest of the "emergent" artists, the 63-year-old West Coast movie critic and former abstractionist Manny Farber. His still lifes of labels, dolls, mementos and children's toys, deceptively casual in arrangement and laid out with near architectural precision, despite their fatty paint, are like...
Recent decorative tendencies in American art are sampled at the Whitney but ignored in both the Guggenheim and the Hirshhorn. The idea of an art, abstract or figurative, that is entirely hedonistic, anxiety-free and without social resonance is not, of course, new in America. That was what most abstract painting in the '60s was about, although the fact was concealed as embarrassing. Now the impulse is out of the closet, which is a relief-although it seems not to have produced any genuinely major painting. The best of the peintre-décorateurs, and the longest...