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...directions at once." Besides its spectacular "Art and Dance" performance series, and the popular series of video screenings, the ICA this year has offered several exhibitions of purely visual, stationary works of art as well, including an exhibition of pastels by Lucas Samaras, and the recent showing of Christopher Wilmarth's "Breath," a collection of blown glass, steel sculpture and works on paper, created in response to seven poems by Stephane Mallarme. The upcoming "Boston Now" show will feature painting, photography and sculpture, as well as works in the newer media...
Gothic Mansion. The real center of this project is a rambling, 18th century colonial house in Farmington, Conn. Named Strawberry Hill after Walpole's Gothic mansion, it is the home of Wilmarth ("Lefty") Lewis, 81, Yale class of '18, who has been editing Walpole letters since 1926. There the snowy-haired Lewis has recreated Walpole's library. Portraits of Walpole's family adorn the walls, and a converted squash court houses Lewis' huge holding of 18th century satirical prints. The collection is cross-referenced on 60,000 cards, so detailed that Lewis can easily answer...
...Harvard collection of correspondence during that time between Lippmann's close friend, Wilmarth Lewis and Metcalf will not be opened for public scrutiny for another 20 years, Douglas Bryant, director of the University library said last year. Lewis arranged for Lippmann to give his papers to Yale...
...Wilmarth, pianist, in recital. Works of Schumann, Debussy, Chopin. Free. Friday, April...
...essays. Besides continuing the Yale volumes, Lewis is currently working on a book of essays about literature he has particularly enjoyed. In a chapter on Cicero's De Senectute, Lewis has written: "Ardent collectors are among the happiest of men because age does not weaken their rapacity." Clearly, Wilmarth Lewis is among the happiest...