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...first-rate sculpture shows has opened in the New York City area this spring. Such artists as Michael Heizer, Ursula von Rydingsvard and John Duff have mounted exhibitions demonstrating the range and vitality of contemporary sculpture. One of the most impressive of all opened last month at Storm King Art Center on the Hudson River in Mountainville, N.Y., 55 miles upstream from Manhattan. It is a concise survey of the past ten years of work -- 17 sculptures, 19 powerful charcoal and oil-stick drawings -- by the British-born sculptor William Tucker, 53, who has lived in the U.S. since...
Some investments approach that ideal. Allstate Insurance Co.'s private placement division maintained a growth rate of 40% a year during most of the 1960s by making prescient purchases in such companies as Memorex, Teledyne and Control Data. Chicago Financier E.F. ("Ned") Heizer has put his Heizer Corp. into a 32% ownership of Amdahl Corp., a computer maker that has booked $30 million of orders in its first year of production. The biggest hit of all was made by former Harvard Business School Professor Georges F. Doriot, who launched American Research and Development Corp. in 1946 as the nation...
...left as it frequently is to the whims of nature and viewed rarely by anyone other than the artist, it acknowledges what art has rarely acknowledged before: its own transience. It is a motley movement dominated more by high adventure-and imagination-than by any single name. Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria dug trenches in sun-parched deserts (they are silting over), Christo wrapped a portion of the Australian coastline in polyurethane (the plastic was removed), Britain's Richard Long imposed a geometric pattern on a field of daisies by plucking the blossoms (as any gardener could predict...
That is exactly why many artists find the concept so irresistible. Dennis Oppenheim displays a photograph of a giant nebula made out of aluminum chips that he sprinkled on a field out side New Haven, Conn. Michael Heizer shows a photograph of five holes he dug in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. Robert Smithson exhibits his Non-Site, five trapezoidal woodbins filled with chunks of ore, plus an aerial photograph of the mines in Franklin, N.J., whence they came. This is meant to allow the viewer to contemplate the fact that "140 minerals" are found in the earth...
...Robert Heizer, one of the leaders of the La Venta expedition, believes that the Olmecs' radiocarbon dates will "force a total chronological reassessment of early American history." His hope is that the shadowy Olmecs may have had other centers in Mexico or Central America, perhaps in places where the climate is not so hard on relics. A peculiar ruin at Tlatilco near Mexico City may be one of them...