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About a month ago, a friend of mine gave me a book on Jean Dubuffet. I haven't looked at it much, except to notice that he left the price tag on it, and that the stuff shown inside looks very bizarre. At any rate, the Rolly Michaux gallery is showing gouaches, lithographs and aquatints by Dubuflet Calder and Miro (who I'd at least heard of before) through March 21. Calder is mostly known for his mobiles, copies of which have a tendancy to end up in banks. The gallery is at 125 Newbury St. in Boston...
...Anwar Sadat's argument that Egypt could not pledge Israel nonbelligerency so long as the Sinai remained occupied. In reply, the Secretary pointed out that Israel tacitly accepts Egyptian sovereignty over the Sinai, that Jerusalem regards all occupied territories as negotiable-but that there was a political price tag on each withdrawal step, which the Arabs would have to accept...
...deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...
Photography is a fad right now, and so the show's catalogues will probably sell well, despite their $25 price tag. But if photography is to become more than a fad and be recognized for the serious aesthetic potential which it does have, its new proponents will have to develop a far better sense of the medium's history and possibilities than Doty and the Whitney demonstrate in this show...
When Ford travels to China next year, will Earl Butz tag along to tell some Charlie Chan jokes...