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...parody? Of course. But with colors reversed, a very similar scenario has been played out at New York's Whitney Museum around a show that opens this week called "Black Artists in America." Of 75 black artists chosen by Curator Robert M. Doty, 15 have withdrawn amid a gale of controversy...
Vague Deal. The initial attacks on the Whitney's show were, ironically enough from the museum's viewpoint, spearheaded by the group that provoked the exhibition in the first place-the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, an ad hoc committee chaired by Artists Benny Andrews and Cliff Joseph. The B.E.C.C. was originally formed to protest against the racism of the Metropolitan's "Harlem on My Mind," and now claims 150 black artist members. In 1969 it met with Whitney officials to demand a full-scale survey of living black artists...
...Whitney's director, John Baur, agreed "because black artists have been so neglected." To organize the show, the Museum appointed Doty, who is white but had directed three earlier one-man shows by blacks at the Whitney. The B.E.C.C. asked that "a black expert on black culture" be hired as guest curator along with Doty. In a prodigious diplomatic error, the Whitney refused. Its grounds were those of precedent. "Only three of our shows in the past forty years," a museum spokesman explained, "have been organized by guest experts." But Baur did agree to consult black experts "wherever feasible...
FROM the early days of the Republic, when Thomas Jefferson backed Inventor Eli Whitney's design for mass-produced muskets with interchangeable parts, public support for technological progress has been an American tradition. Out of this tradition has grown an obsession with speed, a consequence of the nation's great distances and the rush to cover them quickly, producing what Historian Daniel J. Boorstin calls "a technology of haste" that dates back to the pioneering steamboats of nearly two centuries ago. Add to those themes the national desire to win, to be first. A natural consequence...
...Lockheed has been trying to renegotiate its contract with the British government and get the engines. Last week the two sides continued their meetings in Washington, still with no apparent result. If no deal can be made, Lockheed could still save the TriStar by buying engines from either Pratt & Whitney or General Electric. But that plan would put the plane's production even farther behind that of McDonnell Douglas' competing DC-10, deliveries of which are expected to begin later this year. Faced with the prospect of long delays, Delta Air Lines, one of the three major customers waiting...