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...BRINGING Diana Ross to Harvard last week, the Harvard Foundation tried to do something nice for students. Ross is a talented artist whose music spearheaded the crossing of racial barriers in the early 60's, contributing to the spirited Motown sound we all know and love She's a star and knows how to play the role to the hilt. She's glamour, she's glitz, she's a fun, funky, beautiful Black woman with an abundance of style. What more could the Foundation offer to get people to come out of the woodwork and take notice...
...Camel's back "nor" an insult to the intelligence of all the students who wish to improve race relations at Harvard University and the community at large," as a number of students have claimed. But the last that the Foundation features celebrities like Sugar Ray Leonard and Diana Ross in order to bring itself to the attention of students not only indicates the University's lack of sensitivity to minority needs: It also points up the lack of communication between students and the Administration...
Because the Foundation has low visibility on the whole, the speakers it chooses to advertise its existence are all-important. Guests like Diana Ross and Sugar Ray Leonard are perceived as having little connection with the race relations issue outside of the fact that they are Black, and because they have been the Foundation's most widely received guests, their visits lend credence to popular conceptions of the Foundation as bogus, or at least less than serious...
That future will be bright if David Ross can do anything about it. As he says, "The ICA hadn't been doing enough to make the contemporary art scene in Boston work. We have to break the rules, we have to do more." And the ICA has helped many Boston artists already. The Stantons say they have discovered the works of such artists as Scott Hatfield, Mags Harries, Peter Hoss. Robert Ferrandini and Joyce Loughran through the ICA. Linda Stux added Magnus Johnstone and Harvey Low Simons to the Stux Gallery's list of exhibitors after seeing their work...
...under Ross' direction, may well do much to dispel the myth that the avant-garde in art is nowhere to be found in Boston. "Reputations still have to be made or unmade in New York," says Sellars, "but the ICA is moving in very exciting directions. I saw a lot there that meant a great deal to me, and it's a great environment in which to work. And that's the important thing for an artist. The important thing for an artist is working in the media available, getting it done...