Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anything Goes, Billy Crocker, sometime employee of the wealthy Mr. Elisha Whitney, comes to the liner to see off his boss and the evangelist-turned-torch singer, Reno Sweeney. Finding that Hope Harcourt, the love of his life, is aboard ship, Billy decides to travel, too. When Moonface Martin, travelling with submachine gun in violin case as the Reverend Doctor Moon, provides Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef...
With three months of the art season still to run, it may be early to guess which New York institution will have put up the most vapid show of 1972-73. But a retrospective of the works of Bruce Nauman (through May 13) makes the Whitney Museum a strong contender...
Nauman, a 32-year-old body-artist, video-taper and conceptualist who works in California, is the present Wunderkind of the official avantgarde. His show, booked on the circuit to Bern, Dusseldorf, Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman...
...LISA WHITNEY...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (2) ¶3-The Sunlight Dialogues, Gardner (5) ¶4-Elephants Can Remember, Christie (3) ¶5-August 1914, So/zhem/syn (9) ¶6-Green Darkness, Seton (8) ¶7-The Camerons, Crichton (10) ¶8-Semi-Tough, Jenkins (4) ¶9-Snow Fire, Whitney (7) ¶10-The Persian Boy, Renault...