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...strain on his family, Rockefeller returned to Maine as soon as he could. He and Happy put out to sea in a sailboat they have dubbed the Queen Mary, Rocky at the tiller, Happy handling the sails. Later in the week, Rockefeller appeared at a tent party in Newport, R.I. During his speech, he was interrupted by hecklers. When the crowd tried to eject one of them, he protested. Then he quieted his antagonist: "Courtesy requires you to wait until I complete my speech. One of the great traditions of this country is freedom of speech and another is courtesy...
...answer opened last week in the conservative and flintily traditional community of Newport, R.I. It is an exhibition named "Monumenta," organized by Art Historian Sam Hunter and a staff of his graduate students from Princeton and backed by an enthusiastic Newport resident named William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
Gnomes in the Garden. The experiment works, but not always as it was meant to. "The picturesque charms of Newport," writes Princeton's Hunter, "with its inexhaustible variety of visual backgrounds, should help mitigate the brute power of contemporary sculpture colossi." Mitigate is scarcely the word. The landscape sometimes annihilates the sculpture. That vast, wrinkled plane of sea fringed by blue pudding-stone bluffs is so much stronger than some of the works perched above it that objects like George Sugarman's 18-ft. Kite Castle, 1974, Alexander Calder's stabile or Robert Murray's pleated...
...look." The art demands an artificial space, cold or meditative, in which nothing competes with the object. An extreme example is the work of Barnett Newman, the late dean of minimal art. Several of his austere steel pillars are dotted on the rolling, shaven greensward of one of Newport's more lavish mansions, The Elms. Isolated in their white museum cubicle and garnished with the rhetoric of sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn...
CLAYTON W. DAVIS Newport News...