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Died. Constantine Brancusi, 81, famed, bearded Rumanian sculptor whose polished bronze propeller-blade-like Bird in Space stirred a noisy controversy in 1926 when U.S. Customs officials tried to tax him for importing huge hunks of bronze "under the pretext of art"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong eyes, high-arched brows and attenuated fingers, touching in prayer or greeting, the inner spiritual tension meant to guide the viewer in his devotions. For the Indian sculptor, such works of art were a combination of ritual and magic that made his craft a profoundly religious calling. Says Philadelphia's Indian Art Curator Stella Kramrisch: "The many gods of India would have no existence on earth were it not for their portraits in stone and bronze...
...sculpture, Death has come off far better than Taxes. But now in the big new Municipal Administration Building in Düsseldorf, West Germany, taxpayers have at last found a spokesman in 35-year-old Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand...
France is full of new chapels by artists and architects and some who are not. After Matisse and the Vence chapel came Jean Cocteau recently to do murals for a chapel at Villefranche on the Riviera. The most peculiar chapel of all is the one designed by painter, sculptor, and architect Le Corbusier. His chapel looks like a French peasant maid's hat perched on the head of a cocker spaniel with the ears drooping over the top. It has astounded many, not least by the fact that it continues to stand. For the past few weeks, Robinson Hall...
...Other carvings will be quarried free from the solid rock. A public campaign has been organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted...