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...York Times says that "Like Paul Strand's, her work has a double claim on our attention. It belongs to history and at the same time it is part of the contemporary scene. On both counts, it is of exceptional interest." In the past year, Imogen Cunningham has had one-woman shows at both the Metropolitan Museum and New York's prestigious Witkin gallery. Last spring, the University of Washington Press published a new collection of her work, entitled Imogen!. Imogen Cunningham has hit the big time...
Back in 1967 a shy young artist named Kate Millett had her first one-woman New York show. LIFE magazine ran photographs of her most striking sculptures: two-legged piano stools in boots (with socks painted to order), selling for $40 apiece. It was the kind of publicity that artists starve for. Now, in a passionately unhappy book, the same Kate Millett feels compelled to write: "As the subject of controversy I suddenly acquired significance for others just as I ceased to hold any for myself . . . no longer mine, my life grew loathsome...
...Acting Institute Director Susan Lyman said that by opening the gallery the Institute is trying to "spearhead an increased access to academic and economic opportunity for a group of gifted women who have been notably overlooked and underpaid in our society." Long-term plans for the gallery include several one-woman shows, a photography exhibit, and a juried show open to all women in the greater Boston area...
Women artists are acutely aware of the cultural biases that act to impede their careers. Marianna Pineda, a sculptor participating in the gallery's current show and an Institute Fellow from 1962 to 1964, is an established local artist by any standard. She has had three one-woman shows, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts owns two of her pieces. Despite her success she still feels artistic institutions discriminate against women. "Art schools are filled with women," she said, "but most of the instructors are men. Women are taught that art is a lady-like pastime...
Married. Eva Gabor, 47, Hungarian comedienne who is less famous as an actress (she starred in the television series Green Acres) than as a one-woman marriage statistic; and Frank Gard Jameson, fiftyish, senior vice president of the Rockwell International Corp.; she for the fifth time, he for the second; in Claremont, Calif. The Gabor women (Mother Jolie and daughters Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva) have now been married a total of 19 times...