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August 9: Allen Tate, the metaphysical poet, biographer, and critic, who will lecture on "Poetry: Modern and Unmodern...
With such a wealth of art, a favorite guessing game on three continents has been: Who will get the collection? London's Tate Gallery offered to build a museum in Regent's Park to house it. Israel was willing to match all offers; so was Zurich, Switzerland. At home, Los Angeles wanted the collection for its new museum; Governor Nelson Rockefeller wanted it for New York State; the Baltimore museum offered to build a separate wing. Hirshhorn himself at various times was rumored to be alternately considering turning his Greenwich home into a museum or planning to build...
...painter"-see Dubuffet as a major innovator, one who has drilled through to a largely ignored stratum of human consciousness: the images of psychotic art. Furthermore, his work is gaining admirers. This week, for instance, there are three major exhibitions in London, including a full-scale retrospective at the Tate, as well as a show in Paris...
...included, besides some of Turner's most famous oils, those other paintings that during his lifetime he had kept carefully hidden away in his studio along with his intimate sketchbooks and his notes on technical research. And it is Turner's lesser-known works, selected by the Tate Gallery's Keeper of British Painting Lawrence Gowing and the Modern's Monroe Wheeler, that strike contemporary sensibilities with such stunning effect...
...Snowdon. 298 pages. Nelson. $18. Lord Snowdon's marriage to Princess Margaret has not interrupted his professional career. His camera plays with lively, inventive and sometimes mischievous effect on the faces and figures that comprise Britain's art establishment. On a pedestal in the basement of the Tate Gallery, surrounded by cocooned statues that have fallen from public favor, sits Sir John Rothenstein, looking a bit discarded himself (he was on the eve of retirement as the Tate's director). Britain's new generation of artists are shown in their untidy studio lairs, and although their...