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According to Painter Ben Shahn, there are only two good excuses for art. "You paint something because you like it a lot," he says, "or else because you hate it." Shahn, 49, paints mostly what he hates...
...apparently good-natured man with a soft voice, Shahn seems much gentler than his work. To please his wife and three children he lives in a federal housing development in Roosevelt, N.J., and serves as a town councilman. But he is city-bred, and complains that the countryside "looks like Sunday every...
...Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Thin, long-haired Editor John Morse of Washington's monthly Magazine of Art chose Ben Shahn's provocatively-titled The Quartet (three men playing musical instruments...
...Shahn, New Jerseyite, veteran social protester - for a show of tempera paintings forming an illustrative pageant of wit, horror, love and leftward politics...