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AMERICAN SINGERS by Whitney Balliett Oxford; 178 pages...
...play up the soloist, adding a flourish here or a rhythmic twist there, never straying from the background. Whitney Balliett is his critical counterpart. Jazz aficionados tend to go heavy on the adjectives; Balliett favors a deceptively simple style that illuminates the musician instead of the writer...
...Whitney Museum's Biennial, which opened last week, is not a real salon. It is too closely preselected for that; entrance is by invitation only. Nonetheless, since 1932 it has been the closest thing to a salon that New York City has had. At least some of the names in the 1979 exhibition−which includes 110 objects by 56 painters and sculptors, along with programs of film and video work by 32 other artists−are not likely to be known to most museum visitors. What the five curators who chose the show have given...
...only "big" movement of the 1960s with an aesthetic that continues to be felt in the 1979 Whitney Biennial is, oddly enough, minimalism−a style made up of simple, primary, uninflected forms, usually garnished with tangled masses of oversubtilized criticism. Less, these days, does not seem to be more, especially when the work in question is yet another empty grid by Sol LeWitt, or something like Richard Serra's Toll, 1978-79−three walls of a gallery enclosure painted dead, oily black. In the past, some of Serra's sculptures have been memorable, their slabs...
...Glenn Fine sank four crucial free throws in the last 12 seconds of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to stave off a tremendous comeback attempt by the Elis and preserve the Crimson basketball team's second consecutive one-point victory in two nights, 80-79, here at the Payne-Whitney...