Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organized by the Met's controversial curator of contemporary arts, Henry Geldzahler (see box, page 81). A gargantuan display spreading over 35 galleries, a space that would easily accommodate the entire Museum of Modern Art, it traces the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism through its later manifestations in hard-edged abstraction on to the violent reaction that coalesced in Pop art. Essentially, it is the story of American art's coming...
...show is selective and flawed. Geldzahler has limited his exhibition to what he calls the New York School, by his definition a stylistic rather than a geographic limitation, and focused on what he sees as the central figures in the international modernist tradition. Given this definition, however, it is hard to see why he left out such major artists as Naum Gabo, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, William Baziotes, Richard Lindner, Larry Rivers, Marisol and Lee Bontecou. Even so, with 406 works by 43 artists, Geldzahler has assembled the most exhaustive survey ever of the period...
...equilibrium" of a capitalist system. That comment, which is often echoed in the Communist world today, will not help his followers explain Wall Street's reaction to the Viet Nam Moratorium. A sea of demonstrators poured into Wall and adjoining streets, crowding them so tightly that people could hardly move. Hundreds of custom-tailored bankers and brokerage-house partners joined their clerks and college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church, where Investment Banker Andre Meyer, Ogden...
...most powerful words you can use in a headline are FREE and NEW. You can seldom use FREE, but you can always use NEW-// you try hard enough...
Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...