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This week, with Butler's prizewinner on display at London's Tate Gallery, its reedy symbolism was too much for one infuriated young spectator. He snatched up Butler's fragile Prisoner, crushed and twisted it beyond recognition. Sculptor Butler, who had spent eleven months modeling his creation, took the assault with poker-faced calm. Barring snags, he said quietly, he could build a new one, exactly the same, in two or three days...
...Allen Tate, poet and literary entire will read selections from his poetry tonight in Agassiz Theatre at 8.00 p.m. The reading is the third in a series sponsored by the Radcliffe Student Government Association...
...founder of "The Magazine", a Southern literary magazine. Tate is now teaching at Princeton...
...third show of his young career, Painter Alan Reynolds, 26, had good reason to be surprised. Even before the formal opening, all but two of his 26 abstract landscape oils had been sold to private previewers. The Arts Council's Sir Kenneth Clark snapped up one; the Tate Gallery's Sir John Rothenstein was almost too late, barely managed to get the picture he wanted. After a week, everything was sold, including all Reynolds' drawings and watercolors, and there was a waiting list of 40 eager patrons, including Actor John Gielgud, Leeds's City Art Gallery...
...again, the cycle was the same: first realism, then a- gradual swing forward until his bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date is 1930, and as far as the world knows, Matisse has never done another sculpture...