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Everyone has heard of the Ford Foundation. And the Rockefeller Foundation, and the many Guggenheim foundations. But who ever heard of the Robert O. Hayes Foundation of Grand Blanc, Mich.? It exists, however, and according to its records, it made recent grants of $2 each to the Easter Seal campaign, the American Cancer Society and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. But the size of its operations do not legally make a foundation any less taxexempt, and that is the point...
...allows sufficient space for the exhibition's text and material and compartments for the chairs and creates a flow around the hall that lets the visitor circulate without rushing about as on a Guggenheim Museum ramp...
After studying at Yale University and King's College, Cambridge, Stansky received his doctorate from Harvard in 1961. He is now writing a book under a Guggenheim fellowship...
...first time the Guggenheim International is devoted exclusively to sculpture, but that, says Associate Curator Edward Fry, 32, who spent two years and traveled to 30 countries in preparation for it, is only a sign of the times. Sculpture, he believes, is "involved with specific objects, with facts," while painting "almost always maintains some quality of illusion, reference or metaphor." Says Fry: "The facts of sculpture correspond to the post-meta physical moment...
...Revolt. On the top spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt...