Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 5'8". He and Clapton hid in a corner of the room trying, impossibly, to remain inconspicuous. Baker--chalk skin set off beneath dull orange hair, black motorcycle jacket, high heeled boots and fingers almost hidden in silver and gold rings. Clapton in blue velvet pants, white silk socks and patent leather buckle shoes. Brocaded vest and fingernails longer than a Japanese dowager's. At the other end of the room was Bruce, sullen and bored. He sat with his stubby fingers nervously drumming the edge of the chair. Alligator boots, knee-length leather riding jacket. Compressed nervous...
...sculpture, be cause it involved four human beings, seated to form a square on a white-painted floor of a white room in Manhattan's Architectural League. Nevertheless, there was no denying that the scene had an eerie visual unity; joining the quartet was a strip of red silk acetate, 24 ft. long and 12 in. wide. It had been sewed into a square with a loop at each corner, and each loop fitted onto the head of a participant. Title of the work: Four...
...parade in tandem around the block. "You see," he exulted. "We are changing the landscape of New York!" Inside another garment, titled 100 in an Airplane, he hoped that participants would strip to the buff and sit on the floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes a far less interesting shape." Alas, when Byars first staged the event last week, he waited in the cockpit of the airplane, clad only in a Navajo hat, a red loincloth and black socks carefully held up by red silk...
...more and more offices. Engineers at Hughes Tool Co. not only wear turtlenecks but also sport luxuriant beards and mustaches. At Ealing Corp., a learning-systems and optics company in Cambridge, Mass., President Paul D. Grindle thinks nothing of going to work wearing shimmering green slacks with a red silk shirt, welcomes similar flamboyance in his employees. "The mini-er the better," he says. "People seem snappier, jazzier and zippier when dressed in mod styles...
Shadow Play. In many cases, the options in Milwaukee are simply yes or no decisions. Gallerygoers, for instance, have a choice of contemplating Andy Warhol's peeled version of a silk-screened banana, or admiring the unpeeled one. Or they can stoke Robert Watts's Stamp Machine with either nickels or dimes. (Having been removed from daily use to the higher realms of art in 1963, Watts has replaced its now outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked...