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What they had was a major discovery-the world's only group of mural sketches by Michelangelo Buonarroti, more than 50 large drawings, done in charcoal on the rough plaster of the walls and inadvertently protected by later whitewashing against age, flaking and the 1966 flood. After several months of restoration, the discovery is being exhibited in Florence this week...
...main direction of U.S. sculpture, throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, was official and public. In a catalogue section titled Statues to Sculpture: 1890-1930, Art Historian Daniel Robbins gives a fascinating account of the plaster colossi produced by the cohabitation of raw new capital, laissez-faire idealism and academic talent. He also shows how the desire for emblematic icons of American history- realized by such grand-scale performers of the period as Augustus Saint-Gaudens-eventually made an accommodation with modern style through art deco. In the studios of beaux-arts figures like Saint-Gaudens...
...whirls on a small round platform set eight feet above the crowd, nearly nude, brandishing a large glimmering orange cape. A dark oval beauty-mark is stencilled on the front of his thigh. He thinks about how hot it is under the lights. Up here on the smooth plaster cylinder he is safe; it is his turf, aloof, contained. Despite the energy of his grinding movements, no emotion glides over his soft face and glazed eyes. Perhaps he imagines that there is a razor-tin glass wall around his little world that keeps out the fat curls of smoke...
While the department has already attended to chipped plaster and broken windows, Scialabba said painting and other major repairs could not get underway until the end of the semester...
Fizzed-Out Schweppigrams. Her maid Dubois (Charlotte Jones) is a les bian built along the lines of a sumo wrestler. When Dubois is not knocking back the gin, she levitates offstage, and there is plaster in her hair to prove it. An other lesbian, Shatov (Elizabeth Laurence), arrives with her girl friend Elizabeth (Wanda Binson) in tow. Two homosexuals enlarge the circle of Mrs. Basil's menage, and the queerest sur prise of all is that, under her cafe-au-lait tan, Elizabeth is black, and her hand is won in interracial marriage by Mrs. Basil's beloved...