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...Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started...
...breasts, eleven legs and eight pairs of lips; he adds for good measure six oranges, three cigarettes, two radios, two pop bottles, one toilet seat, one hero sandwich, one glass of milk, one Volkswagen and one lemon. Altogether, the lot amply illustrates that, as Director Jan van der Marck observes, "Wesselmann shows woman as the consumer, both consuming and being consumed...
...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...