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...lucky week for Les Levine, a 31-year-old leprechaun who was born in Dublin, studied art in London, and has since migrated to New York to become a member of the rapidly expanding environmental school of art. Like George Segal, Edward Kienholz, Jim Dine, Lucio Fontana, Louise Nevelson, Cassen & Stern, Lucas Samaras and a host of others, Levine makes total rooms, not individual works of art. Most environmental artists, however, are lucky if they can manage to get one room displayed at a time in a single city. Last week in Manhattan, Les Levine had two displays...
...Whitney Museum's Andrew Wyeth show (TIME, Feb. 24), which has already drawn 170,000 visitors, found themselves in for a delightful surprise when they reached the topmost gallery. There an almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America-Dawn, a multi-totemed white creation, looms...
...Louise Nevelson has at last arrived in the art world. Eighteen museums now own her sculptures. In the decade since collectors first began to be entranced with her mysterious box-sculptures, the price of her work has escalated. Smaller pieces, which sold for $1,000 each five to ten years ago, now go for up to $6,000, and several museums have paid more than $45,000 for her huge wall sculptures. Nevelson herself, a big-hatted, cigar-smoking metaphysic on the order of Edith Sitwell or Isak Dinesen, is pleased but not entirely surprised by her acclaim. After...
Pupils poured from his classes in New York and Provincetown, including Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Richard Stankiewicz. But he openly confessed, "As an artist, I know that art cannot be taught. All you can do is try to bring out in the individual whatever you think can be brought out." But he was most emphatic that art be seen as the realm of endless possibilities, where one can do anything and express anything. Said he: "Art must not imitate physical life. Art must have a life of its own-a spiritual life...
There was a time a few years ago when the only U.S. sculpture well known abroad was the bric-a-brac-cluttered black boxes of Louise Nevelson and the swinging mobiles of Alexander Calder. And even Calder hardly counted, since most Frenchmen consider him French anyway (he has a second studio in Saché). But last week more than 13 tons of the New World descended upon Paris in the largest exhibition of American sculpture ever shown in Europe. The site, of all places, was the Rodin Museum, and the impact nothing short of formidable...