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...stage while clasped in the arms of a lovely female dancer. Not everyone agrees about the value of these displays. But they have won 39-year-old Morris recent retrospectives at Washington's Corcoran Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts. And last week New York's Whitney Museum presented six new pieces, including Morris' biggest indoor sculpture to date...
...Eagles combined a single by leadoff hitter Mike Whitney and a double by right fielder Steve Micherone to narrow the gap to 2-1 in their half of the first...
FELLOWSHIPS. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded about 25 grants to blacks out of 186. Since 1952, about 35 blacks received Fulbright scholarships in the arts out of a total of 968. One bright spot was the Opportunity Fellowships granted in art by the John Hay Whitney Foundation, set up specifically to help disadvantaged students. Out of 74 awarded, 32 went to blacks...
PERMANENT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum owns ten black artists out of 1,200 Americans overall, the National Collection of Fine Arts eleven out of 1,599, the Museum of Modern Art twelve out of some 450, the Whitney Museum 15 out of 1,100. With no figures at hand, the National Gallery of Art in Washington could recall only three, and the Art Institute of Chicago only...
...offices and executive suites, blacks face more subtle problems. Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, has a vivid description of how the world of white-collar work appears to a black man. "We can still usually tell what floor we are on in a corporation by the whiteness of it," he says. "In the basement, it might be all black; on the first floor, it's sort of polka dot. But as you go up, it gets whiter, and soon you get near the top, and except for that guard or receptionist out front...