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Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
...memorial, where only days before angry crowds had confronted Soviet tanks, hippies strummed their guitars. Prague police hustled young Czechoslovaks away from the statue of Wenceslas, the country's patron saint, where for days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing...
...Leaf for the Patron. One striking example is the sort of drama presented by Berman, 26, a kinetic, spade-bearded expatriate from Maine. Devoted to what he calls "the Theater of Eros," he is at work on a six-playlet cycle under the collective title of Kiss My .... He believes that drama should be made accessible to people within their daily living patterns. Accordingly, his latest one-acter, The Nudist Campers Grow and Grow, goes on at Cafe Ambiance at lunch hour. Each patron is given a tree leaf if he cares to join the nude campers. A few have...
...clatch of castles, pavilions, hideaways and other architectural follies in the 1870s and 1880s. Was he totally deranged? Not according to Dr. Michael Petzet, 35, the Munich art historian who oversees Bavaria's state-run castle-museums (including Ludwig's). Petzet, pointing out that Ludwig was the patron of Richard Wagner, sees the king as "a creator in his own right, someone who aimed to fulfill what Wagner understood as total art on his own terms...
Born in Vilna, Russia, a center of Jewish culture that produced Heifetz, Schneider acquired early experience as a teen-age member of a trio in a local restaurant. The trio occasionally was summoned to play in an upstairs room while a patron made love to a prostitute in full view of the musicians. Undaunted-even by the tip of a bottle of vodka-Schneider sometimes arranged to meet the girl afterward...