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PAUL HORIUCHI-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. This artist arrived at an esthetic blend of East and West by drawing by turns on Sumi-ink training in his native Japan, the tutelage of Seattle Zen Master Takizaki and, finally, the abstract expressionism of Mark Tobey (who selected this show). Horiuchi's abstract collages, composed of torn bits of rice and mulberry paper stained in misty shades of grey, evoke not so much nature's shapes as its weathery moods-sleet, snow, rain...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. An exceptional exhibition of American drawings selected by Curator Lawrence Alloway includes work by such senior draughtsmen as Gorky and Tobey, along with some by relative newcomers, including Larry Poons and Sven Lukin. A handsome historical precis of Albert Gleizes' offers the U.S. its first chance to review the work of one of the earliest cubists. The drawings run through Oct. 25, the Gleizes' show through...
Already many lesser structures have gone under. The distinctive mud houses of some 50,000 Nubians, their walls of tobey (from which Spanish takes the word adobe) gaudily painted with symbols ranging from scorpions to flowering steamboats, dissolve and collapse as the Nile laps among them. Of 43 villages, 33 have already been evacuated, their citizens relocated in stone-and-cement villages replete with grocery markets and food-processing plants, at Kom Ombo, 40 miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain...
...much good music weren't enough, choreographer Bob Walsh and twelve dancers capped the evening with an eye-filling jazz ballet of Richard Rodgers' Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The audience's attention stayed riveted from the moment that Nancy Tobey, as The Stripper, began to take off her clothes. The lovers (Walsh and Linda Townsend), various thugs and madams (Mark Cohen, John Kronenberger, Jane Greengold), and a slew of undergraduate cops and whores helped make the production a highly entertaining...
They went to Lynn Phillips '66 (oil painting); Judy Mareus '66 (water-color); Jane Welman '65 (oil painting); Marcia Roberts '66 (pen drawing); Sarah Webb Rich '64 (pen drawing); and Nancy Tobey '65 (brush...