Word: inked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discover a final form, to stabilize reality before painting it. But what if drawing is not about definitions, what if it chooses to study the instabilities of perception? Such is the question hidden in the work of a masterfully gifted Israeli artist named Avigdor Arikha, whose exhibition of ink drawings-seen last year at Marlborough Galleries in Manhattan-is now on show in Fort Worth...
...shoes and coats, his own face or that of a friend like Samuel Beckett, may seem frustrating at first. They look messy and disclose themselves slowly. None of the hard, wiry line of pen or silverpoint here; the brush (the kind used in Japan for sumi-e or ink painting) flits and stumbles across the roughly textured page, leaving behind tiny marks that seem knitted or crocheted together...
...situation was deliberately set and ripe for overt trouble. The `revolutionary movement' was in part funded by Harvard College itself (which chose not to complain when college supplies were diverted to radical uses such as mimeograph paper and ink). Known communists were admitted as students to Radcliffe and Harvard, and the rest is history...
...Offered a better deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage...
Before the ink was dry on last Wednesday's Laos agreement, B52s were flying over the Boloven Plateau in southern Laos, allegedly to stop Pathet Lao ceasefire violations. There can be no justification for renewed U.S. bombing in Laos...