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...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...
...these two shows constitute an instructive journey through the achievements of a guild-like family whose work traversed nearly all the reigning styles of European art, from symbolism through post-impressionism to cubism, and thence, in Alberto Giacometti's work, through surrealism and out the other side. It is a salutary lesson in what commitment to art as a discipline can mean and how it differs from the facile professionalism with which, all too often, we are stuck today...
Meanwhile, Santiago's provincial military boss has issued "Bando 28" (Order 28), forbidding "elections of any kind in union, guild, political, student or any other kind of group." Vacancies will be filled by the military. The draconian measure led one Santiagoan to wonder wryly whether the order applied "to the local football club too." The constitution was recently amended so that Chileans who criticize the government while traveling abroad will automatically lose their citizenship...
...Attica Defense Fund needs contributions desperately, and the National Prisoners' Reform Association, a national union of prison inmates, needs people to help community groups organize on behalf of prisoners' rights. Interested students can contact the Massachusetts Lawyers' Guild in Cambridge, or Joseph Sandler '75, chairman of the Massachusetts Student Coalition on Correctional Change, through Phillips Brooks House...
Resistance by craft unions has been the biggest obstacle to newspaper automation. The News has no Newspaper Guild representation and is now in arbitration with the typographers' union over details of the changes, but labor problems continue to inhibit automation at many big papers, like the New York Times. Several smaller publishers are trying the changes and liking them. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (circ. 50,448) and its sister evening Herald (circ. 19,277) began installing CRTS a year ago, now have ten in operation and ten more ordered. Chronicle Managing Editor Robert Brown points out that...