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ALEXANDER CALDER - Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Next month Calder's mobiles will take to the air at the Guggenheim. Meanwhile, some 30 circus drawings, all done before he started launching tin and wire into upper living space, make a fitting prelude to the retrospective. Perls also has a few mobiles. Through...
...Change. Beginning next month, his byline will appear in the weekend edition of Newsday, the highly successful Long Island tabloid founded in 1940 by the late Alicia Patterson. The new partnership delights both sides. Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, who took charge of Newsday after his wife's death in 1963, has maintained the paper's high rank as one of the largest suburban dailies in the U.S. (present circ. 400,000). Last spring, in an effort to attract new advertisers and reader ship, he attached a Weekly Review to the Saturday paper and began a search for distinguished...
...been auctioning most of the most important art collections, this season has sold a record $36 million worth; its $11 million sales of American collections alone exceeded Parke-Bernet's fading total turnover of $10.8 million. Without even asking Parke-Bernet to submit a proposal, for example, the Guggenheim Museum this year decided to send 50 paintings by Russian Wassily Kandinsky to Sotheby's rambling New Bond Street headquarters, where they were auctioned last month for $1.5 million (to make room in the Guggenheim...
...Although the French congratulate themselves on carrying the torch of civilization, there is a lack of interest in art," says Lawrence Alloway, curator of the Guggenheim Museum. "The attendance for the entire run of the recent Dubuffet show in Paris-granted that it was not at the height of the season-was 8,000 to 9,000. Here at the Guggenheim, we have that many people on a single Sunday." Alloway believes that "schools of painting flourish under anxiety and affluence," and New York has both. But Manhattan Critic Harold Rosenberg argues that on balance, "the concept of a world...
...believe-it-or-not basis, museum officials, including President Harry Guggenheim, insisted that since the museum lacks the display space to show the paintings, they wanted to disperse the work. "We are done now," said the contented Guggenheim. "Before, it was a bit like misers going down into the cellar and counting the gold. Now the rest of the world has all the Kandinskys we are ever going to part with...