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...most startling toy in the show was contributed not by a painter or sculptor but by a musician. Joe Jones, 29, is an unknown composer- whose seemingly playful intention is to get a head in music. He has done it with a $250 hat, atop which stands a skeletal drummer and a ghostly dancer. When the hat is pulled down tight, the drummer's eyes light up and he begins a rhythmic tattoo, while the dancer follows his every beat. Prices or "playfulness" notwithstanding, Santa's North Pole helpers were never like this...
Painting in Gems. The Wittelsbach treasure represents some of the finest works of a moribund art in which precious stones, rather than paint, provided color, and malleable gold and silver, rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop...
CHRISTOS CAPRALOS-Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th. First U.S. exhibition of the sophisticated mockeries in bronze of the human form by an important Greek sculptor. Bits of realistic anatomy peep through the textured surfaces. Through...
MASAYUKI NAGARE-Staempfli, 47 East 77th St. The first U.S. exhibition of the massive abstract shapes of Japan's foremost sculptor (TIME, Sept. 20). Surfaces are apple-smooth or raw-rock broken; the urge to touch is irresistible and encouraged. Through...
Fitting in one's painting or sculpting among courses, homework and a reasonable amount of sleep offers further difficulties but it seldom proves impossible. One student sculptor remarked that "anyone who really wants to can make time for his work. It may mean missing the football game on Saturday and not going to the movies, but it can be done. The people who can't do it are the ones who like to just sit around and say 'I'm an artist but I don't have the time to do anything.' Still, for someone who lives in a house...