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...wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik from the Pompidou Center in Paris and by George Plimpton, 56, acting as host at a studio in Manhattan, the one-hour live broadcast is described by Paik as a "celebration." Presumably, Big Brother will not be watching...
...retrospective. Curated by Art Historian Barbara Rose, it opened late last month at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts: 152 paintings and drawings, the distillation of a 50-year working life. The show will travel to San Francisco and New York City and will also be seen at the Pompidou Center in Paris. It deserves the audience. Anyone who thinks that all the major American artists have been locked into their historical profile should see it, and repent. Krasner has never been a trivial painter, and sometimes her work, as Rose convincingly argues, has been touched with real grandeur...
Against this background of increasingly brazen Soviet exploits, the abrupt expulsions seemed long overdue to French counterintelligence services. Former Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin revealed that in 1971, when Georges Pompidou was President, he had proposed the expulsion of 150 Soviet and East European agents, but that it was decided not to jeopardize relations with the Soviets. Under Giscard, the argument prevailed that it is better to keep spies who are already identified and known rather than throw them out and have to start anew ferreting out replacements. Accordingly, over the past 20 years France, publicly at least, had expelled only...
...gala reception marking the show's opening took place not at the Pompidou Center, where a strike had delayed the hanging of the artwork, but at a nearby unfinished restaurant...
Among the 400 guests were numerous cover subjects or members of their families, including Georges Clemenceau, grandson and namesake of the French Premier who appeared on the cover in 1926; Genevieve de Gaulle, niece of General De Gaulle; and the widow of President Georges Pompidou, a cover subject in 1969, 1971, 1973 and 1974. Present, too, were former Premier Edgar Faure (1955), former Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville (1964) and Actress Jeanne Moreau...