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...restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead Boy poignantly traces an adolescent's struggles against parental misunderstanding at home and the temptations of life outside, with an ambiguous outcome suggesting either death or maturity; in Sebastian, John Butler's sinuous, sensuous dance patterns turn a 17th century tale of black magic into...
...Gogh's paintings have made the squares, houses and bridges of Saint-Remy and Aries among the best-known scenes of France. But neither town as yet has raised a monument to the artist who made them famous. This oversight is now being corrected by Los Angeles Sculptor William Earl Singer, 57, who has cast a large head of Van Gogh, designed to reflect varying emotions as the sun passes over it, and has offered the sculpture as a gift, to be set up in a public place in Aries...
Last week, in a cordial exchange of abrazos and acreage, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz redressed the Rio Grande's trespass. Crossing into bunting-festooned Ciudad Juárez, they spoke at the monument erected by Mexico to commemorate the settlement. "An old argument has ended," said L.B.J., "a lasting bond has been forged." Echoing these sentiments, Díaz Ordaz stressed: "This is not an isolated case of understanding...
...Monument that Floats. Judged by the Contemporary's first offerings, the answer would seem to be "a fair amount of confusion." The principal exhibit, "Pictures to be Read / Poetry to be Seen," focused on the works of twelve artists who employ both pictorial images and written words and ranged from the exquisite to the spectacularly shoddy. Among the most successful were the intricate lens constructions of Mary Bauermeister, the comic-book panels by Chicago's James Nutt, and the reconstruction of a 1964 Happening staged by Allan Kaprow, in which gallerygoers were invited to "make poetry, make news...
...visionary architects whose plans are exhibited at St. Thomas have long been studied by subsequent architects because they foreshadow so many buildings built in the 20th century. Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99) was a popular teacher at Paris' Royal Academy of Architecture who designed giant globular monuments as a means of classroom elucidation. Among the remaining sketches of his works is one of a projected monument for Sir Isaac Newton, consisting of a giant sphere pierced by tiny openings to simulate starlight. Today's planetariums and, indeed, even Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes recall...