Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sonorities. The freedom of Alechinsky's art keeps it alive in a heyday of pop and op. He prefers truly popular art, such as the papier-mâché statues that the Mexicans explode with fireworks. "Popular art differs from pop art," he says, "the way the pleasure of love differs from artificial insemination." The trouble with pop, Alechinsky believes, is that it pays chilly, calculated homage to mass production. Says he: "You might say it's capitalist realism as opposed to awful socialist realism. Too neat and orderly...
First there was pop, then the trend setters opted for op, but as the new acquisitions show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum demonstrates, still another category is called for. Old-line Geometric Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt suggests "ob"-from object-and it embraces any object, image of one, or whatsit that might amuse museum directors or titillate collectors. Examples of ob art offered at the Whitney include...
...Op, Post-Op. Houston's normally seething traffic is mercifully light when DeBakey takes off for Methodist Hospital in his Alfa Romeo Sprint (a gift from a grateful Italian patient) at an unpredictable speed and in no particular gear. A man who never walks if he can drive, he gets his exercise by refusing to wait for elevators. He lopes up and down stairs and covers the hospital's labyrinthine corridors at a brisk pace. Professor DeBakey has a handsome, spacious, blue-carpeted office in Baylor's College of Medicine, and rarely uses it. In Methodist Hospital...
...feet, with taupe carpeting over cork, and harsh on the eyes, with unshaded clerestories admitting a blaze of light. In the Bezalel* the exhibition is mostly on loan from ten countries, mainly illustrates Old Testament themes, and spans art history from the quattrocento to Vasarely's op. Where the Bezalel triumphs is its Judaica: intricate wooden doors from Cairo's medieval synagogue of Maimonides and an entire blue-and-gold baroque synagogue from Italy, donated by New York Investor Jakob Michael...
...shopping bag for a group show of what artists collect. It takes at least that much to entice jaded connoisseurs away from their collections of old Batman comic books and portable ant colonies. Meanwhile, the artists were busy nailing, gluing and boxing together things that are neither pop nor op...