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...protect a group of girlie magazines banned by Louisiana, and a group of Danish homosexual magazines impounded by U.S. Customs because they were illustrated almost entirely by front views of nude males. On the other side of the ledger, the court refused to review the conviction of a sculptor in Miami who had been fined $100 for displaying in his backyard six large statues of couples engaged in various normal and aberrant sex acts. The court broke no new ground, but neither did it give the lie to the often-repeated prediction that it will eventually allow virtually any publication...
...apotheosis of the ordinary, the art fancier understandably asks: "What is art?" Replies Samuel Adams Green, who supervised the installation of New York's outdoor sculpture show: "Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art." But even Green was taken aback when Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his spoofing soft-plastic sculptures, last week ordered a hole dug in Central Park by professional gravediggers, and then had it filled in to produce "an invisible, underground sculpture...
...uneasy public feeling that some of contemporary art just has to be a put-on is not without reason, as the artists themselves point out. Says Los Angeles Sculptor Edward Keinholz, whose own "environments" of Nevada brothels and backstairs abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers...
...cost as much as $2,000 to produce. Besides, the work is too big and heavy to keep in the house. It is intended for outdoors, for the public to enjoy. Tony Smith is not the only artist to think in terms of outdoor space. Many other sculptors are beginning to create works on a civic scale. Among Tony Smith's fellow monumental sculptors: > Robert Grosvenor, 30, New York-born son of an amateur animal sculptor, builds immense brilliant yellow or red and black cantilevered diagonals, engineering marvels that sometimes hang from the ceiling or wall down to within...
Rust & Shipyards. "Napoleon could pay for big works; so he got big works," says Sam Green. City governments and corporations are already beginning to play a similar role. Chase Manhattan Bank thinks nothing of setting aside $100,000 a year for sculpture and paintings for their banks. Sculptor James Wines has finished an ll-ft.-high piece for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., in Nutley, N.J. In Los Angeles, Alcoa's huge new Century City complex will be complemented by a 30-ft.-long, 8-ft.-high Peter Voulkos...