Word: marck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to host the guests, including Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham, whose museum's president backed up his good wishes with a $50,000 donation, was the Contemporary's director, Netherlands-born Jan van der Marck, 38, former director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends...
...second exhibit, Van der Marck showed 34 drawings of "proposed colossal monuments," including giant baked potatoes and pizza pies, by Claes Oldenburg, who was raised in Chicago, where his father was Swedish Consul General. Van der Marck is already talking of floating an Oldenburg on Lake Michigan, as part of Chicago's 150th birthday celebration next summer. After all, Van der Marck figures, since his job is to show what is living in the mind of the artist, what is the point of keeping it confined to a museum...
...thinkers question the need for infant baptism. "To say that a human being is born damned and continues to be damned until he is baptized is utter nonsense," says Lay Theologian Daniel de Lange, secretary of The Netherlands' ecumenical center. Heaven and hell? Dominican Theologian Willem van der Marck shrugs them off as myth: "Heaven and hell just do not preoccupy us any more...
...London, when Trova showed them, they were called by one critic "the cumulative image of Man as victim, stereotype, faceless statistic." In Minneapolis, they typified, according to Curator Jan van der Marck, "the modern enigma." Trova himself has said, "The falling man is a personal hypothetical theory on the nature of man. I believe that man is, first of all, an imperfect creature...
...proportion of masterly works in this exhibit is phenomenally high. But one can learn much even from the few failures--such as Marino Marini's heads of Stravinsky and Nelson Rockefeller and Gerhard Marck's Adenauer, all of which lack character and sufficient vraisemblance...