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...difference is that Writer-Director Don Owen, a gifted 30-year-old Canadian, approaches his rusty theme the way a junk sculptor approaches a scrap heap-with zest and spirit and an evergreen appetite for discovery. Improvising action and dialogue, Owen achieves a cinema of spontaneity. His film is choked with words, yet the words effectively express the jumpy, inarticulate restlessness of youth...
What texts! Thompson chooses his texts with the care of a sculptor choosing his stone, a calligrapher his nib. His settings of three Horatian odes sound fresh after 41 years: one wonders how those dissonances and lush chromaticisms (which have since become less frequent in Thompson's music) struck listeners in the twenties...
Harold Tovish, another well-known artist, is exhibiting his work at the Swetzoff Gallery (119 Newbury St.) One of this sculptor's fine heads is now on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. In his recent work, however, he seems to have gone spectacularly astray perhaps under the influence of Pop art. Here he is displaying pieces constructed since 1962, with prices starting at $6000. I am puzzled about why such an artist and a gallery should go to so much trouble over objects of so little interest, but perhaps other will disagree...
...Joseph, Minn., Sculptor Joseph O'Connell ambles out of the surrounding woods twice weekly, leaving his wife and eight children behind, to demonstrate his method of sculpting at the College of St. Benedict, a Catholic women's school. There he fires up an acetylene torch and shows the girls how he carves in metal, presumably leaving them with a lifelong interest in both sculpture and blowtorches. The 642 students at St. Benedict's even enjoy a second artist in residence: Playwright George Herman (his From Sea to Shining Sea has been optioned by Manhattan's Lincoln...
...delights indoors. The plaza already boasts sculptures by Henry Moore, Renoir, and a welded stainless steel abstraction by Germany's Norbert Kricke. Astraddle one reflecting pool is a trio of Alexander Calder stabile-mobiles, whose balancing paddles are propelled sporadically by water jets. The U.S. sculptor's metal bathers were commissioned by the museum's Art Museum Council, an active volunteer group of 200 ladies. They are kiddingly called "the Culturettes." In tribute, Calder topped his work with two waving black disks, like Mickey Mouse ears, and titled it Hello Girls...