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...Glue. For days the local newspapers had been full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting. The point, explained Kaprow, was to have a plan, but no rehearsal, no separation of audience and spectators. Just pick a theme, arrange the setting, and let things happen. For the Hamptons' Happening, which was to go on for three days, the theme was "Gas," in part because Kaprow & Co. intended to use a lot of helium for balloons...
Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...
...Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...backers next hired Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, who blasted away all of Borglum's details. Chipping away at Stone Mountain continued for three years, following essentially the grand conception of Borglum, who took himself off to Mount Rushmore. Even the sale of a million dollars worth of commemorative coins could not keep up with expenses. Not until 1958 did the state of Georgia undertake the financing of the memorial, and only two years ago was St. Louis-born Sculptor Walker Hancock taken on to finally finish the grandiose project. There is not likely to be any further delay. Today drillers...
Christina befriended the Italian sculptor Bernini, set up her own art center in 1674 called the Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having...