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BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, looks at the light side of a dark evening in the flat of a London sculptor (Jordan Christopher) when neighbors, customers, fiancee and mistress collide during a power blackout...
...hate this age," says Sculptor Reuben Nakian. "It's very cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
...Angeles County Museum's mammoth "American Sculpture of the Sixties" exhibit. The work, he says, is meant to symbolize "the birth of the universe; like coming out of woman, all life comes out of the female." Also last week, the Art Institute of Chicago opened a 27-sculptor summer exhibit called "A Generation of Innovation." Curator A. James Speyer noted that "works of virtue by many noted sculptors are not included be cause of adherence to traditions earlier than our period." Still, Nakian's four-piece plaster Judgment of Paris (consisting of Paris, Minerva, Juno and Venus...
...Museum of Modern Art staged a one-man exhibit of Nakian's work that illustrated how his style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because...
...Braques, but also works by Lichtenstein and Warhol-plus 17 works by contemporary Dusseldorf artists. The area's leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails by U.S. Pop Sculptor George Segal to a white disk studded with a forest of white nails casting elliptical shadows by Gunther Uecker...