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Before his controlling joke ("prefaces that lead nowhere") wears thin, Lem concludes his fictional anthology with a series of pseudo-documents that seem to have a middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the...
Rapid-Fire Skeletons. Kaprow soon moved on to "happenings," a term that he coined (the distinction, he points out, is that "an environment is set up in a defined space, a happening is a theatrical performance, or continuing activity"). Artists who followed in his wake have moved a long way...
Luminal artists commonly require the viewer to push a button or step on a lever in order to activate their art, but Manhattan's Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last...
The new art is challenging traditional painting and sculpture in the museums; the Philadelphia Museum of Art has currently installed "American Sculpture of the Sixties," with George Rickey's 37-ft.-high red blades soaring and Alexander Calder's white-petaled Ghost wafting under the 85-ft.-high...
Sir: A footnote to your story on luminal art [April 28]: In November 1963, the Corcoran Gallery presented a show called "Design in Light" that may have been the earliest exhibit of luminal art. The artist was a Washingtonian, William Bechhoefer, who developed his technique in the Visual Art Center...