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...picking them up, U.S. pop artists were barely aware of one another. Today, they are the new bandwagon; and since the avant-garde public is so hungry for more and more avant, the pop artists are in the chips. Wesselmann can sell a collage for $2,500; a Claes Oldenburg Floorburger is priced at $2,000; and JarLes Rosenquist can fetch as much as $7,500 for a painting...
Exhibition: 14 American Painters (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special showing American painters at work in their studios, including Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, Larry Rivers, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg...
...Janis that Pollock finally went, and so did Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
From Giorgione to Oldenburg is a long way; but Manhattan goes the whole route. A crazy art critic once estimated that, with the galleries normally putting on about ten exhibitions a year of anywhere from 20 to 50 items, the number of art works that could be seen in the course of a New York season would be anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000. Even if there were only the top galleries and the handful of others that, while uneven in performance, are still honest and earnest, a person would be hard put to see Manhattan's biggest...
...room for them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some 150 U.S. singers in German-speaking houses today, constituting about 20% of the soloists. California-born Soprano Mary Gray, 29, recalls a Traviata in Karlsruhe last season: "The three leads came out for the curtain calls, and I looked around...