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...contemporary-art lover and he will tell you that Buffalo is the home of the Albright-Knox Gallery, one of the nation's finest and most up-to-date art collections...
Sign & Symbol. Buffalo, in the six years since the Albright-Knox added its glass-walled new wing, has taken giant strides toward becoming a vociferously militant acropolis of the avant-garde arts. Though the latter term is out of vogue in Manhattan's rarefied critical circles, it is used with force and conviction in Buffalo, where the cab drivers lecture their fares on the horror of the Albright-Knox's modern art, and where Foss reminds his listeners that the word avant-garde is military in origin. The artist, in his view, is meant...
...Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called "Plus by Minus: Today's Half-Century" at the Albright-Knox Gallery (see color opposite...
...dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith, 61, and the residual deficit will doubtless be met by the gallery's longtime Medici, former seven-goal polo player and investment banker Seymour ("Shorty") Knox, 69, who paid $100,000 to underwrite the first festival, an S.R.O. attraction that in 1965 drew 187,000 visitors...
Most festivalgoers begin their tour of events with a visit to the Albright-Knox's "Plus by Minus," a title that the show's organizer, Douglas MacAgy, amplifies on by citing Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." For the first 20th century abstract artists, the impossible was "the accreted imagery that has been a characteristic of visual art ever since the Renaissance." First to jettison traditional images altogether, as MacAgy shows, was the Russian suprematist Kasimir Malevich, with his revolutionary 1913 drawings of two squares and a circle...