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Invitations to New York openings now must be art works themselves: invisible-ink posters, a kaleidoscope rattling full of the artist's favorite images, plastic ice cubes filled with bolts or ball bearings, a signed shopping bag for a group show of what artists collect. It takes at least that much to entice jaded connoisseurs away from their collections of old Batman comic books and portable ant colonies. Meanwhile, the artists were busy nailing, gluing and boxing together things that are neither...
...European express train, or simply what he could do if he had added woodwinds and brass. Not everything new is off key. A newcomer at the Modern, German-born Mary Bauermeister, 30, believes that there is more than one way to look at a painting. She boxes pen and ink scribbles, beasties and the progress notes of her work beneath Plexiglas layers, scatters them with lenses in sizes ranging from contact to Cyclops. As the viewer moves, hocus-focus! Lines magically ripple, images flip. She has indulged herself in pebble collages, but her more recent optometry, such...
...former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled...
Alcalay was admitted to this country in 1951 under the Truman Bill. Equipped only with his talent and humor, he has become one of Boston's leading artists and has had successful shows also in Washington and New York. Alcalay's most recent works are ink drawings on rice paper, a painstaking medium in which he shows his ability as a draftsman...
...stools. The soccer field was ringed with a belt of basketball courts; there were more ping-pong tables than bathrooms. We had no central heat, of course, and since there was always competition between classes to save coal, we frequently went the whole winter without our little stoves; the ink would out by late afternoon...