Word: kinship
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...Unity in Kinship. Documenta uses three castles to signal three trends. Striking the keynote in the Fridericianum are the signal-flag squares of German-born Josef Albers, who lives and works in the U.S. They are accompanied by the shaped, geometric and op canvases of his many European and American admirers. A room is lit with the disks of California's Robert Irwin (TiME, May 10). Highceilinged, cathedral-like galleries are filled with the gigantic rainbows of U.S. color-field painters and the authoritative sculpture of the U.S. minimalists...
...David Hockney hang in the same gallery with their better-known U.S. pop equivalents, such as Tom Wesselmann and Robert Indiana. Indeed, it is Documenta's unity that last week prompted Sculptress Louise Nevelson to remark: "Usually an artist works in loneliness. But here, one suddenly experiences the kinship one always suspects one might have with the rest of the artistic world...
...knew the period as a teenager, explored the subject in his Dillinger series, a group of lithographs and color intaglios in his recent one-man show this February at the Milwaukee Art Center. To California-born Colescott, the '30s, for all the hard times, had "a kind of kinship and romance." He sees Bank Robber John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, as the folk hero of the decade, the outlaw at odds with society, who also personified "the general environment of violence that is still very much with...
...uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with $125 million, thereby setting a pattern that other rich Americans have since copied with exponential zeal. Despite its title, which suggests a kinship with General Motors or IBM, the Carnegie Corporation pursues no profits and pays no taxes. It was one of the first of the philanthropic foundations that have multiplied throughout this century in a conscientious -and sometimes conscience-stricken-effort by great wealth to live up to its noncommercial responsibilities...
...range. Also, she may be gambling with her voice's future by singing taxing roles at such an early age. Still, such all-or-nothing assaults on the heights are in the spirit of Callas' own career, and the older soprano may have been acknowledging the kinship when she tried to quiet the boos at Carnegie Hall by shouting the Greek word for "good": "Kalla! Kalla! Kalla...