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...York Herald's founder, started the paper in 1887 as the Paris edition of the Herald. In 1935 it became the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, which it still strongly resembles in typography. After the parent paper died in 1966, Publisher John Hay Whitney took on the Post and Times as partners in the Paris survivor...
...rare solo concerts, in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jazz Pianist-Composer Duke Ellington received an even rarer compliment. Togo's Ambassador to the U.S. presented him with a block of his country's stamps honor ing four great composers. "Ah," said the delighted Ellington, "Debussy, Bach, Beethoven-and Duke...
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS. In its 43-year history, the Museum of Modern Art has mounted 1.000 one-artist exhibits. Only five were by women. At the Whitney, eight out of 129 one-artist shows in the last decade were by women, and at the Corcoran, there were four women out of 80. Of 52 such shows at the Los Angeles County Museum, none has been by a woman...
SURVEYS. The survey shows held by some museums are catalysts for new talent. At the 1969 Whitney Painting Annual, 6% of the artists were women. This year the figure rose to 24%. Last year's Corcoran Biennial had no women among 21 artists; the 1971 Young Los Angeles Artists show had three women...
...last effort to launch an art "movement" from the frail base of one New York patron's taste took place about a year ago, when Dress Manufacturer Larry Aldrich gave the Whitney Museum a mass of paintings by younger American artists on condition that they all be exhibited under the category of "Lyrical Abstractions." The show was a complete flop. Even New York-where the omnivorous appetite for meaningless art categories would test the digestion of a goat-rejected this offering: the name meant nothing and the members had nothing in common. Yet the event did involve...