Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western-Style Competition. While op erating on the principle that the more unfit a story may be to print the better it will sell, the new Yugoslav papers are indulging in full-scale competition-Western-capitalist style. They sponsor every imaginable promotion gimmick from beauty contests to lotteries. They take unprecedented liberties with the party speeches and production figures that are the standard fare of most Communist journals, and the space they save is larded with crime, sex and show business. Every clay, Vecernje Novosti devotes its center spread to busty beauties, and often adds a disingenuous caption: "What...
...When TIME arrives, as an artist I flip quickly to ART. This week my eyes lit first on MEDICINE, and I thought I was in the right place. Medical science is marvelous. And you have opened a new avenue for artists tiring of op, pop or kinetic...
...minute drive home in time for dinner. He had turned down a $750,000 congressional appropriation for an official residence as unseemly in view of Viet Nam, so finally last week, "with the advice and counsel" of Wife Muriel, Hubert splurged $89,000 on a six-room co-op apartment in downtown Washington. "We just weren't able to see enough of each other," beamed Humphrey, obviously tickled at the mere nine-minute drive from his Capitol office...
...mighty nice little nest egg for all his efforts: the $5,000 first prize at the Chicago Art Institute's 68th annual exhibition. The jurors also awarded prizes of $2,500 each to Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Larry Poons, all New Yorkers of the pop-op-geometric persuasion, and a $1,000 prize to Sculptor Robert Morris...
...Center, is Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts. What the Smithsonian will get is a panoramic survey of U.S. painting, restricted in time but encompassing the then current art scene. In retrospect, the moment it caught was one of transition between abstract expressionism and the pop-op movement, but the collection has enough prime works by established artists to prove that for American art, almost any year in recent decades has been a vintage year...