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When Frank Stella's first canvases, consisting of black pin-stripe squares inside of squares, were shown at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1960, local papers reacted in horror. "Unspeakably boring!" snapped Herald Tribune Critic Emily Genauer. A less determined man might have gone into life insurance-but Stella painted on. His latest canvases, on view at the Castelli Gallery, are newly brilliant with a rainbow of Day-Glo colors, but they are as elemental in concept as ever (see color opposite). What has changed is that instead of being banned for boredom, Stella...
...creator seven years ago of the first shaped geometric canvases, Stella is looked up to by dozens of other young artists as a precursor of the whole minimal school of painting and sculpture. His new works demonstrate how far removed trend-setting art has become from any concern with society, reality, human interest or popular taste: the multicolored cartwheels, half-moons and pie cuts look as though they had been stamped out on a machine. They were, in fact, designed with the aid of a protractor and compass, although unlike many minimal sculptors, Stella still believes in executing his works...
...forty-year-old man called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member of the company, Sheila Hart, does an adequate job with the relatively small part of Stella, the maybe-sinner...
Married. Jack Kerouac, 44, head beatnik and Zen brother to a now fading generation, who has written a dozen books about it (On the Road, the just-published Satori in Paris); and Stella Sampas, 47, manager of a dry-cleaning plant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hyannis, Mass...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Ronny Howard, the mop-top moppet who scored in the film version of The Music Man, filches the laughs from Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens in The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Moral: never underestimate the power of a six-year-old who decides that his widower-father needs a mate...