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...Americans were also a matter of astronomy, although Mark Tobey's star seemed dwindling. Three Tobeys went for a total of $34,000, or $8,500 below top estimates. But Willem de Kooning's flowing landscape, Merritt Parkway (TIME, May 18, 1959), garnered his top auction price, an even $40,000. And for the first time a Robert Rauschenberg was put up for bids. A 1959 "combine" (it includes a tie and a zipper) called Summer Storm popped right through the ceiling, to $13,000, or nearly twice the estimated price...
...most critical decision to come before the World Council of Churches since its founding 16 years ago is the choice of a successor to the Rev. Willem Visser 't Hooft, 64, its omnicompetent general secretary. Last week, meeting in the improbable town of Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-member central committee showed its deep concern over the decision by rejecting one officially nominated successor and ordering a search for someone else...
Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...
Robert Rauschenberg is utterly open-minded in defining art. He has painted completely black pictures and completely white ones. Once he tried making pictures out of dirt packed in boxes; when grass sprang up, he was delighted. Wheedling a drawing out of Willem de Kooning, the dean of abstract expressionists, he laboriously erased it, and then boldly displayed it under the label Erased De Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg...
...Owings & Merrill, has built a small concrete and marble pavilion overlooking an inshore bay, and Edward Durell Stone remodeled a 21-room, grey-shingled elephant on a dune where Jacqueline Kennedy used to play when she was a subdeb Bouvier. The Hamptons' most illustrious and most retiring painter, Willem de Kooning, turned architect and built his own house-over and over again. A huge, $150,000-plus modern mansion with all the daring angularity of De Kooning's art, it has a 30-ft.-high studio and a sauna in the basement, but it is still unfinished after...