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DIED. WALTER HOPPS, 72, visionary museum curator and influential advocate of American art, particularly the Los Angeles avant garde; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. The first to create a museum exhibition for Frank Stella and a retrospective of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, Hopps opened the Ferus Gallery with artist Ed Kienholz in 1957, which became a pre-eminent launching pad for such artists as Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin...
...Think of this as a kind of exorcism—a way to show multiple perspectives of sound and image. Plus there’s the whole idea of ambient cinema. I come out of a tradition of collage—Harry Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Ives, all European/Anglo American traditions, meet stuff like GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata and the Bomb Squad that produced Public Enemy. Plus I remix old blues records for the show as well. The idea is to apply DJ technique to cinema, but to keep things well chilled...
...Marcel A. Q.. LaFlamme ’05, one of the primary organizers of the event, said that he wanted Summers to resign, but that regardless of the recent controversy, he felt Summers was obliged to address more women’s and minority issues on campus...
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...minority languages, such as Breton, a Celtic language akin to Welsh that is desperately struggling for survival. France persistently refuses to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, thus combating at home a cultural diversity that it eloquently advocates for the rest of the world. How hypocritical! Marcel Texier Maurepas, France