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...seeing. The theme of sanity is an old favorite, all too often overdone as a loosing struggle between an upright mind and its gloomy, evil oppressors. In this piece the heaviness is ingeniously avoided: Bridgeman, the man/mind, stands well over six feet tall, while the harbingers of insanity, Laurie Selz and Lisa Myerson in green Geotards and painted faces, are not much more than five feet tall. Innocently he plays with them, lifts them on his shoulders, all tiny, innocent seeming, yet sinister, they trap...
...University Art Museum in Berkeley, Calif. At 46, Paris has been by turns wigmaker, illustrator (for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes), fisherman, painter, environment maker and sculptor. Though he has exhibited frequently in Europe, he is still virtually unknown in the U.S., for, as Berkeley Museum Director Peter Selz puts it, "he has never been part of any movement in American art. I think that is why he was never successful in New York, where art goes in movements and trends. When most art in America is cool and removed and interested in problems of form, here...
...estate-or down to the free exhibition space on areas below. The floors are broken but connected by ramps, so that viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made cul-de-sacs and all kinds of things to keep people in front of a painting." Selz, 51, who quit his post as a curator of the Museum of Modern...
...young who have already bolted the establishment, the Metropolitan's show may represent another irrelevant exercise in self-aggrandizement for what goes in the marketplace. Peter Selz, director of Berkeley's University Art Museum, observes: "Today's young artists reject pure color paintings as establishment art. They are more interested in changing our total environment." Nonetheless, aside from the majestic scale, the frequent emptiness and the su-persimple icons of the past three decades, there is a lesson to be learned from the Met's show. It is that American artists have persistently practiced a kind...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...