Seems that the Bostonians have fallen short across a speaker. As the sound pulses vibrate co-ops. About 180 artists were in the cata- of their goal of $5 million to keep Gilbert the elastic skin of the speaker, the mirrors log and 50 were in the show, Stuart's famous portraits of George and reflQt the motion, as colored light patterns, In September 1979, Artists' Choice held Martha Washington in the city, but the out- onto a large surface such as a wall in perfect shows in six well-known 57th Street gal- come has not been determined, and it does time to the music. leries: Marlborough, Komblee, Frumkin, not necessarily mean that the paintings Dintenfass, Brooke Alexander and Fisch- would be sold to the National Portrait Gal- The Whitney Museum recently showed bach, with splendid cooperation from the lery in Washington. Attempts are being "Steam Screens," a film installation by Stan gallery owners. Now, ACM is headed by made to negotiate a lower price with the VanDerBeek and Joan Brigham-a series of Robert Godfrey, a 12-member board of Boston Athenaeum, the private library that computer-generated images projected onto artists, a board of trustees, and a desire to agreed to sell the works to the NPG for 5 moving waves of live steam. Pressurized find a space, possibly rent-free, million. steam-1,000 pounds a square inch-was piped into the sculpture garden to make MURALS the steam waves. Brilliantly colored images, projected on the vapor, were captured by The lost fresco by Leonardo da Vinci The S.E.M. Ensemble, founded and directed droplets of steam. As the rising steam moves seems to have been found through the by Petr Kotik, has performed throughout through the streams of projected light, the latest scientific techniques by a group of Europe and recently at the Albright-Knox filmed images form and re-form. American and Italiin experts. Art Gallery. They have premiered a work called Explorations in the Geometry of NEW YORK CITY The frescoes of Diego Rivera in the Thinking for voices alone, a cycle of pieces Detroit Institute of Arts are at the center written on texts by R. Buckminster Fuller The two marble lions in front of the New of a controversy. In October, the city's from his book Synergetics. The group York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and Arts Commission voted to drill a hole in the also performs work by Phill Niblock and 42nd St, broke their 68-year silence recently middle of the court floor and put a stairway Jackson MacLow, as well as John Cage and by roaring out a greeting during the Christ- to the museum's lower level. But 105 of La Monte Young. mas season. Patience and Fortitude in this the museum's 265 employeesjoined a petiti- way thanked New Yorkers who have sup- tion drive to protest the plan, fearing that The Nova Convention, with Laurie Ander- ported the NYPL with contributions. the construction could damage the irreplace- son, WimS. Burroughs, John Cage, Allen able murals, which depict life on the assem- Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Brion Queens Museum is preparing for an exhi- bly line at the Ford Motor Company's Gysin, Les Levine, etc. is ia new record pro- bition on the 1939 WorId's Fair next June. sprawling Rouge complex. duced by Giomo Poetry Systems Records. Included will be catalogs, brochures, maga- Headed by a professor who fears that the This twodisk anthology commemorates zines, little plastic Heinz pickles, souvenirs, vibrations may destroy the murals, the head a Nova Convention designed to honor Wil- one of the fist RCA television sets, an of the Institute says that 'The Rivera Court liam Burroughs, with poetry, prose, rock AT & T Voder, a machine which synthe- was never designed for contemplation." and serious musical avant-gardism intro- sized human speech, animal noises and Rivera's revolutionary realism now has be duced. Available in New York City and other sounds. Also there will be the Harn- come more sentimental than radical, and other artists'bookshops. mond Novachord, the first electric organ. "what was once attacked as political fire The World's Fair Show will be a celebration ends up being defended, coolly and nos- Phi Niblock has opened his Experimental of the fair's 40th anniversary. talgically, as a monument." (NY TIMES) Intermedia Foundation loft in Centre Street to experimental composers to display their New York City's Art Commission is doing The Fall 1979 issue of National Murals wares in pleasant, unpressured surroundings. battle over what colors the city's bridges Network Community Newsletter, packed He also composes his own music and to the should be-from battleship gray to primary full of news and reviews, includes a peti- films he also makes, making an interesting colors. One group feels it is too costly to tion to save the Rincon Annex (Post Office) and focused performance. paint the bridges different colors; the other murals executed by the late Anton KeIreger group thinks that the city's bridges are truly by proposing landmark status of the Rincon A physicist named Jim Kuzman has con- works of art and deserve an enhancement of Annex, thus creating a holding action for structed a display for the Boston Museum of their beauty in color. In the middle is Ma- two years. There is enough news in this Science, called 'Visible Music." It makes yor Koch who excuses himself from this issue to enlighten anyone. There is enough every note in the humanly audible frequen- battle by saying that he is "a little color- about the destruction of murals to rile any cy range, except a few low and very high blind," and he is willing to leave the deci- art-oriented person. For those who wish to notes, visible. Each note is shown for its sion up to those who know more about help and to receive the Newsletter, write to duration as a column of colored light with colors. With more than 1,300 bridges, one Murals Newsletter, Box 40-383, San Fran- its degree of loudness displayed as more of doesn't know how much of a rainbow will cisco, CA 94140. the column is lighted. Kuzma used twelve dazzle the traveler the next time he or she colors of the visible spectrum to identify enters the Big Apple. SCIENCE 81TECHNOLOGY the notes of the twelve-tone scale, repeated across the display. The sequence of colors Artists' Choice Museum is a new museum Scientists at Columbia University have re- are harmonious when the musical tones are founded by Paul Georges and a group of cently performed experiments to under- harmonious, so one can see harmonies- New York artists as a forum for artists stand normal color perception. and the dissonances-clearly. whose work is rooted in realist, narrative or Another inventor, Leon Wortman, has cre- figurative tradition. In order to break muse- RCA Corporation will introduce in 1981 ated a combination of light beam and music um barriers, this group met over a period its SelectaViston videodisk system, compe- which he calls "Music Vision." He shines a of 10 years and finally decided to establish ting with the videodisk system developed by MCA Inc. and N.V. Philips of the Nether- light beam through a revolving color wheel a museum. They fist held an exhibition in lands. Philips uses a low-powered laser to onto mirrors mounted on elastic "skin" four SoHo galleries in 1976-co-ops or near "read" the video and audio infohatidn on graphic Books in Catalogue 45. Write to audio work in the arts. The catalog will con- the platinum-colored reflective disk spinning him at So. Woodstock, CT 06267. $6.00 tain performance art, new music, new wave, at 1,800 revolutions a minute. By contrast, text-sound and sound art available on re- RCA uses the more conventional phono- East Germany for the first time in 30 oords, cassettes, tape, film, video tape and graph technology, a grooved disk tums at yws is releasing its archives of nearly 2 mil- paper. 450 revolutions a minute, played with a lion historical snapshots, many of them While the primary concern of the catalog diamond stylus. unique and a large praportion unpublished is distribution, the work need not be for this century. Among them are frontline sale. If you have produced historical, limited ARCHITECTURE photographs from the German assault on edition, or one-of-a-kind material, please Paris in 1871 and some highly unflattering send in the information for inclusion. 9H will be a journal consisting largely of views of Britain's Victorian royalty. The The catalog will include a worldwide index translations of architectural texts and docu- collection begins in the '1860s and will be of cultural institutions specializing in the ments previously unavailable in English. Plan- available for purchase this month. presentation of audio work and a list of re- ned to include design projects, current re- The state-mn ADN news agency'has pic- tail outlets that carry this material. search papers and polemical articles original- tures of Bismarck from 1865, as well as Individuals, galleries, museums, book- ly written in English. 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Each set costs $35. graphs. pendent video artist-producers forming four Orders to World Microfilms Publications, 62 30-minute video sample tapes which are Queen's Grove, London NW8 6ER. The Center for Creative Photography available to educational and cultural institu- has for its Number 10 "Clarence John tions for in-house use without charge for Vance Bibliographies, P.O. BOX 229, hghlin". 5 days. Also available is a new print cata- Monticello, IL 61856 offers several log, which contains descriptions of the 69 bibliographies: No. 139 has The Dimensions The highest price ever paid at auction programs in their order of appearance on of Japanese Architecture by Robert B. Har- for a single photograph-$22,000-was the sampler tapes. Print catalog is available mon for $2.00; No. 140 on Modern Archi- recently recorded in New York when an without charge to educational and cultural tectural Vision in the Works of Walter Gro- anonymous Pennsylvania collector bought institutions on request. 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SO (from the New Wilderness Foun&tion) has in 16 pages, in an interesting uncut format, that answers by Ritaj, Garo, Findlay, Fhk an exclusive intewiew with Phidip Glass and the news and reviews are incisive, critical and others seem to add to one's Un- Constance De Jong by Michael Cooper, etc. and packed with information hard to come derstanding of art education. Included are by in any other periodical. As indicated by articles about plant art, return of the sea- Edition Shjmim Art Commonication for the editors, cahiers is a forum of artists who eagle, the architecture of Number One New Summer 1979 includes lots of work from are distinguished by their freedom and their York Plaza, Mondrian and De Stijli, the ~e u.S., since Tohei Hohiike was in the San spontaneity, $6.00 a year payable to Edi- scream in art, Diego Rivera and Rockefeller, Fran&co area for six months and generated tions Cahiers, c.p. 1261 Place Bonaventure, Poetry, design history and $0 much more. work from Dadaland, Anna Banana, Paul Montreal H5AlG9. The variety and intenGt~ of scholar*ip Forte, Harley Lond, Carl Loeffler, Dick leads one to feel that Seer III, which will Ri~ns,Nancy Frank, Eleanor Kent and Art New England: A Resource for the Vis- appear after Easter 1980 will in fact be bet- many,many more. ual Arts is a new (December 1979) periodi- ter than the previous two-and that will be cal of regional art news, reviews, and a ca- hard to achieve. ISSN 03096262 File, vol, 4,110. 2 1979) is a special lendar for galleries, museums, grants and For subscription information, write to issue on T~ansgressions,edited by General competitions, etc. Well produced, this is Timothy Neat, Duncan of Jordanstone Col- Idea and Rodney Werden. A potpourri of another in the growing list of regional news lege of kt, Perth Road, Dundee DD1 4BT, insect love, photos by Robert haapple- resources with 10 issues for $12.00 from Scotland. thorpe, a story by Kathy Acker, Modern Art New England, P.O. Box 133, Newton- Love by Colin Campbell, all for $3.00 at ville, MA 02160. ART READER your favorite bookstore or from File, 217 Richmond St. West, Toronto, Canada. Nart is for Nartists in the world over, telling Art Contemporary: Retrospective Issue cele- the world that art is defunct. This is a New brates the exhibition of video and publica- /mp,essions 22/23 edited and designed by Wave anarchical art magazine, supposedly ions (1975-79) sponsored by the San Fran- Isaac Applebaum and Framer in- produced by Jack Perkins and friends in cisco Museum of Modern Art from 21 De- cludes autobiography by Robert Frank, a Berkeley, California. Well conceived graphics cember through 3 February. Available from post Card Supplement, visual poetry and in the new wave caricature style as well as La Mamelle, P.O. Box 2123, Rincon Amex, lots more. Canadian from Toronto. collage, No. 1 covers everything from co- San Francisco, CA 941 19. mics to Video and everything in-between. lmpulse from Toronto for Fall 1979 $1.75 from NART, 103 Alvarado Rd., Ber- Art Ink in its second issue has profiles of includes articles on Devo, a video novel by keley, CA 94705. galleria, magazines, a commentary on the ]~esLevbe, an article by Wiloughby Sharp District arts policy, from MOT& Box 283- on Teieculture, a microfiche insert, as well New Work is the newsprint tabloid news- 85, Washington, DC 20005. as a fashion section. paper of the New York Experimental Glass Workshop in New York City. It covers new Artzien for September (the monthly review Just Another Asshole, a participatory glass work by established and new artists, of art in Amsterdam) featured A1 Hansen, tabloid on fine book paper, has an open has news and reviews. $9.95 for 6 issues with an interview by Jan van Raay, on the issue in its latest outpouring from New (one year) to NYEGW, 4 Great Jones St., occasion of his frrst exhibition in Amster- York. New York, NY 10012. dam. Kaldron 9 for Fall 1979 has some exciting Seer, the magazine of Duncan of Jordan- Cafe Solo for Spring/Summer 1979 is a visual poetry. Available from Karl Kempton stone College of Art, is produced in the stunning tour de force of visual poetry and 441 No. 6th St., Grover City, CA 93433. School of Drawing and Painting designed language art in large tabloid size. The majo- and printed by students and staff of the rity of this issue was selected from works LAlCA Journai for September-October was Department of Printing. Begun in Decem- exhibited in "Visualog", an exhibition in dedicated to photography. November-De- ber 1978, edited by Timothy Neat and a the spring at California Polytechnic State cember issue is dedicated to Latin America, group of others, the manifesto of this su- University, San Jose. guest edited by Carla Stellweg, editor of perb student magazine is interested in art Artes Visuales. Bi-lingual edition. Major as important to the community as well as Cover for January 1980 features works by artists are highlighted, with an appendix to the individual who creates it, in art as in- Ida Applebroog, Rhys Chatham, Tom Dean, of biographies. spiration, in art that appeals to the mind as Fernando De Filippi, Eldon Garnet, Nicole well as to the senses. Gravier, Nancy Holt, Becky Johnston, Ro- Lightworks 11/12, Fall 1979 features The location of Scotland for this magazine bert Smithson, as well as many others. Fluxus with articles by Dick Wiggins, Peter necessitates a reflection on that society and There is also an article by photography cri- Frank, George Brecht, Geoff Hendricks, regional culture, but there are articles on tic Shelley Rice, a column by Bill Jorden on Alison Knowles, Robert Watts, Wolf Vo& Japanese ceramics, the new college building photographic criticism, documentation of tell, Ray Johnson, Ben, etc. $3.00 from P. of the School, poetry, art historical essays, Vito Acconci, a dialogue with Tim Page of 0. Box 434, Brookline, MA 02146. bentwood furniture, a criticism and defense Steve Reich and Philip Glass, a work by of Carl Andre's bricks at the Tate, etc. Dennis Oppenheim, Nonas, Serra, etc. Mota 17 is dedicated to a "posthumous The second issue of Seer includes state- Available for $12.00 a year from Cover, issue" since of the editors got very drunk ments by a selection of distinguished artists 40 Harrison St., New Vork,NY 10013. last year and sent out a press release asking who have been asked, "If you were an art 21 for poetry, short fiction and graphics for 5000 lire, entitling the purchaser to visit The magazine is available for $10 from rheir posthumous issue. Interviews, critical every state museum in Italy. Rizzoli International Bookstore in New articles, plus other madness. $1.50 from York, Jaap Rietman, 167 Spring Street, MOTA, P.O.Box 28385, "iW: 20005. The Great Sphinx of Giza is being shored and Books & Company, 939 Madison i- up with limestone blocks in the most exten- Avenue, New York. '6 is devoted to Fluxus International & CO. sive repairs since the Romans worked on it with a review of the Fluxus at Nice interna- .more than 2,000 years ago. Ilya Glazunov, one of the Soviet Union's tional exhibition by Ben, including articles best-known artists has just been refused by Nikolaus Urban, Fred Forest, and an a The opening for the first great Dali retro- associate membership in the Soviet Aca- article by Carla Stellweg on the Sao Paolo spective ever seen in Paris had to be cancel- demy of Art, which denounced hi as anti- New Biennale. led when museum employees went on Soviet and pro-religion. strike for money and promotions. What had Real Life Magazine 2 for October has an been missed was the draping of two 30-foot In China, some 30 unofficial Chinese article about Dick Higgins and the Some- men's shirts, seemingly put out to dry; the artists, not supported by the state, thing Else Press, an interview in fact by 120-foot-long absinthedrinker's spoon and ridiculed Mao's Red Book. The group Holly O'Grady. the 15-foot salamis hung with care, as well after many tries finally exhibited 170 as the benefit dinner complete with a rice paintings and sculptures hung in a series View for September features Iain Baxter of course shaped like a woman's breasts. of four red-painted pavilions built around a N.E. Thiig Co., interviewed by Robin White At the Centre Pompidou there are 168 pool frozen over by Peking's winter. paintings, 200 drawings, two films, some Several of these works are impressionis- 'Art at the Boundaries" appeared as a spe- 2,000 documents covering the artist's entire tic street scenes, a dozen nudes, some cial insert in the Village Voice, edited by career and dozens of objets d'art. powerful sculpture that mocks arrogant Carrie Rickey with articles by Lucy Lip- bureaucrats, highly unusual art which pard, Jonathan Crary, Kay Larson, Kim Iran says that the National Gallery of broke many long-standing Chinese taboos. Levin, Max Kozloff covering the gallery Art in Washington, the Guggenheim and scene, new artists' books, photography, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, News from Norway tells us that Al Han- mass-produced art by artists for a consump- New York have not returned several valu- sen has been visiting in Europe from June tive audience. 10 December issue of the able paintings and sculptures lent by a to January. In Amsterdam, he was given a newspaper. Teheran museum which were to have been one-man show in Gallery A (Harry Ruhe), returned a year ago. Problems in shipping and in Copenhagen at Svend Hansen Gal- FORGERIES & THEFTS have been cited by the American museums. lery. In Amsterdam, Jan van Raay made an interview with A1 Hansen for the magazine, A 42-year-old Israeli citizen was recently In addition, President Carter's freezing of Iranian assets in this country have also been Artzien (vol. 1, no. 9) and in Copenhagen arrested in Manhattan and accused of at- Grethe Gratwohl interviewed for the tempting to sell a Tintoretto painting cited as an important reason for the delay in A1 returning works of art borrowed from the newspaper Information (1 1 September). stolen during World War I1 from the Dres- Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art. After his stay in Copenhagen A1 Hansen den Gallery of Art, now in East Germany. was invited by the Henie-Onstad Artcentre The painting will be returned to East CAIRN, an artists'cooperative and gallery, in Oslo to prepare an exhibition of his work Germany. opened in June 1976 in Paris. Inspired by planned for September 1980. The exhibi- an article on the Filmmakers Cooperative in tion will be curated by Per Hovdenakk, and An art dealer who sold 90 works of forged New York City, 20 members created the co- will be the first retrospective of A1 Hansen's art to Walter P. Chrysler Jr. about 20 years work. The Artcentre also keeps an archive ago is now being accused of selling 23 fake op, the first in France. CAIRN publishes a of documentation regarding Hansen's work works for $1 .I million to a Manhattan gal- quarterly newsletter that includes articles by co-op artists about exhibitions and various in happenings and mixed media, and would lery. All the works seemed to be by the late very much appreciate contact with collec- Jack Hartert, who was identified by art issues. tors who have in their possession material experts as the forger in the Chrysler case. The co-op survives on members' contribu- Included were three fake Cezannes, three tions, which pays for monthly rent and utili- of this kind. Please write to Per Hovdenakk, Kandinskys, a Braque, a Picasso, a Klee and ties. In seeking funding (there is no federal Curator, 1311 Hovikodden, Norway. During his two months' stay in Norway, a range of lesser Impressionists and post-Im- financial aid for co-ops nor is there an Arts Hansen lectured at the Art Academy in pressionists. Council in France), they did make an edi- tion of serigraphs which were bought by Oslo as well as in Trondheim and Bergen, the National Museum of Art as an indica- INTERNATIONAL NEWS and is invited back next year. Also he gave tion of one way to raise funds to support lectures at the Technical High School of the group. The Spanish government is challenging the Trondheim, and the Art Academy and Arts legality of the French claim to Picasso's The address is 151 Faubourg St. Antoine, and Crafts School of Copenhagen. works, given to the French nation by Picas- 75011 Paris. During his stay in Scandinavia, Hansen so's family in lieu of inheritance taxes. We have learned of'thejfirst underground made three graphic works, available from magazine of current Kussian art, published the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, and the Italian museums have raised entrance in the West, which is called A:Z. It is a Svend Hansen Gallery. For next year, fees from 200 lire to 1000 lire. Sunday 60-page journal reporting on the "unoffi- exhibitions of A1 Hansen's work are planned admission will remain free, and it is still cial" art scene in Moscow and the activities in Amsterdam and Copenhagen, in addition possible to buy annual season tickets for of expatriate artists in Paris and New York. to the retrospective show in Oslo.