MUSEUM NEWS residence as part of the exhibition. A July. The Fairfield County museum is in catalog with essays by Dore Ashton, Germa- the new headquarters building of Champion Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective Glance at no Celant, and Lucy Fischer in 84 pages is International Corporation in Stamford, Con- Eighty will be on view at the Guggenheim fully illustrated and includes a detailed necticut. There is a free 16-page catalog of Museum in New York City through 27 Sep checklist, a chronology of artists' sound the first show, Pioneering the Century, tember. There is an accompanying illustra- activities, and a bibliography. a survey of work produced in the U.S. from ted brochure of 32 pages, with 14 black and 1900 through 1940.. The address of the white illustrations and 2 in color. There is a Both the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum is One Champion Plaza, Stamford. checklist, biography and excerpts from the in New York City and the Museum of The Philip Guston Retrospective, which artist's writings. Modern Art have gone up to $3.50 for closed on 13 September, has an accompany- Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selec- general admission. ing catalog which costs $11.95 and is pub- tiom from the George Costakis Collection lished by George Braziller, Inc. will be held from 16 October - 3 January The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Developments in Recent Sculpture shows 1982 at the Guggenheim Museum. There proposed downtown museum to open in work of Lynda Benglis, Scott Burton, Don- will be a catalog, fully illustrated, with 269 1984, met its July 1 endowment goal with na Dennis, John Duff and Alan Saret has a black and white and 30 color illustrations. more than $3 million to spare. In only 15 catalog of 80 pages, with 48 full -page black The show will travel throughout the U.S., months, the trustees collected nearly $13 and white illustrations, for $8.00. Canada and Europe through 1984. million, $10 million being the goal to show The Museum also received a $200,000 broad-based support for such an institution &ant from the Andrew W. Mellon Founda- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and thus indicate to the authorities that the tion to support planning of exhibitions and has received $250,000 from the First Inter- backers really wanted the institution to be publications relating to the Permanent Col- state Bank of California, to be used in the created. Pontus Hulten will be the director. lection of the museum over a 5-year period. Museum's Capital Campaign. The Museum of Cartoon Art in Port The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center Chester, New York contains 40,000 original 8 The Getty Museum, within the next 60 has produced a catalog to accompany its drawings by 1,000 artists. Founded six to 90 days, will receive final settlement exhibition, The Photography of Space Ex- years ago by Mort Walker, creator of the in the estate of J. Paul Getty, after many ploration, with 64 pages, 16 color plates years of difficult litigation among the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip, it is the only and 32 black-and-white photos, with special millionaire's relatives. Word has it that cartoon museum in the world. introductions by former astronauts Frank the settlement will be $1.4 billion, with Borman and Harrison Schmitt $10 a double digit figure in the millions to The Picasso Museum in Paris will nofsbe be spent each year from that settlement. ready this year, but Marina Picasso, the Hirshhorn Museum shows Larry Rivers Only time will tell how the Getty Museum artist's granddaughter by his late son Paolo, through 20 September with a 48 page cata- utilizes the money for itself and for the lent more than 275 paintings, drawings and log with 6 color plates. greater art community's benefit. sculptures from her own inheritance to go R. B. Kitaj will be honored with the first on view in Munich this year, including nine comprehensive retrospective, including 104 sketchbooks (1900 1964). The exhibition The La Jolla Museum of Contemporary - works from the past 20 years. Exhibition is in Cologne from 11 August through 11 Art will show Christo-Collection on Loan catalog with 16 color plates will have an October and in Frankfurt from 22 October from the Rochschild Bank, Zurich, Switzer- essay by John Ashbery, as well as an inter- to 10 January 1981. land, the first comprehensive survey of view with Timothy Hyrnan, London art Christo's work ever assembled, and the most critic. Chronology, selected exhibitions The Jewish Museum in New York City is significant in number of works, their variety * and bibliography. $10 . having trouble with its neighbors, especially quality and depth, from 21 November thru since it plans to build a 25-story building on Raphael Soyer has given his complete 3 January 1982. There will be an illustrated upper Fifth Avenue next to a turn-of-the- graphic works to the Smithsonian's Hirsh- catalog with essays by Robert McDonald century mansion that now houses the muse horn Museum and Sculpture Garden. and Jan van der Marck. um. A new museum, the Museum of Neon Art Contemporary American Realism since The Getty Museum recently purchased MONA) will open in January in downtown 1960, an exhibition spanning two decades Rembrandt's Study of a Nude Woman as Los Angeles. They will be teaching classes of contemporary American realist work, Cleopatra for $573,000 at a Christie's aue starting this fall, and will be exhibiting opened on 18 September at the Pennsyl- tion in London, setting a record price for a work from elsewhere after the beginning of vania Academy of the Fine Arts in Phila- Rembrandt drawing. It is now on exhibit 1982. Located at 704 Traction, Los Ange- delphia and will continue through 13 De- in the museum. les, CA 90013 the artists who run the gal- cember. A series of allied events, lectures, lery are neon artists themselves, such as Lily performances, a symposium, audiovisual Lakich, who heads the space. If you wish to The opening of the Rufino Tamayo Muse- programs, etc. will also be part of this submit work, send slides and a self-addres- um in Mexico City on 29 May was one of event. A book will be published by New sed stamped envelope to the gallery for the social events of the season, an occasion York Graphic Society. consideration. for tribute to Mexico's most successful li- Soundings, an exhibition of over 100 ving artist. Not only does the museum con- RUBBER STAMP NEWS individual works documenting the rela- tain the amst's private collection, but it tion between the visual arts and sound, stands in Chapultepec Park, a few hundred Stempelplaats, the one great rubber stamp takes place at the Neuberger Museum, yards from the Modem An Museum and the gallery in the world, founded by Aart van SUNY at Purchase, 20 September through Museum of Anthropology. Barneveld under the auspices of Posthuma, 23 December. Included are paintings, sculp- a century-old rubber stamp manufacturer, ture, objects, books, installation pieces, The Whitney Museum of American Art will be closing. Alas, another victim of commissioned works, records, tapes, opened its Fairfield County branch on 14 our times! And in Amsterdam, too. films, and performances by composers in 100 Rubberstampmadness no. 4 is out, now a & Muzak from 28 July through 7 August. curators,art historians and museum person- bimonthly. There are feature articles about This sound exhibition shows the diversity nel. There are several "befores" and fabric stamping, an exquisite use of the rub- as well as the fertility of sound work being "afters." The exhibition, located at 1047 ber stamp. There are articles, news, reviews, done in Australia and overseas. Amsterdam Ave., New York, will remain and lots of ads of new companies and new Included are live performances, installa- open through 30 September 1981. catalog. New subscription rates. 6 issues tions, videotapes, cassettes, graphics. The To prevent books printed since 1860 from for $20.00, but if you find a friend, then catalog has a theoretical inrroduction by selfdestructing and to preserve other archi- a subscription only costs $15.00. Write to Paul Taylor, performance program notes, val materials, the first university degree- Rubberstampmadness, P.O. Box 1274, New the announcement and details notes of the granting programs in the nation to train li- Canaan, CT 06840. the announcementand detailed notes of the brary conservators and preservation admi- lecture/presentation by Bill Furlong, editor nistrators have been established. Master of George Brett has bought the Rubber of Audio Arts in London, statements by science degrees will be awarded by Colum- Stamp Works in Goldsboro, NC. For more all the artists in the show, sometimes coa- bia University in two programs, under the information, write to George Brett, 409 So. lescing, sometimes conflicting. supervision of Paul Banks. Jarvis St., Greenville, NC 27834. The exhibition certainly is a stimulus for some cross-fertilization across the seas in PERFORMANCE ART There was an International Rubberstamp this interesting medium. Included were Workshop in Bremen from 22 through 30 single records, listed in the catalog, as Laurie Anderson has appeared on the covers August, organized by Peter Jorg Splett- well as books and magazines available. of U.S. and foreign magazines recently. On stosser during the Festival of Culture at Bre For more information and a copy of the 26 July 1981, she performed Songs from men, East Germany. catalog, write to George Paton Gallery, the United States at Volunteer Park Amphi- Invited were poets, authors, artists, and Union House, University of Melbourne, theatre in Seattle. composers to participate in this interna- Parkville, Vict. 3052, Australia. Donna Henes chanted Chant for Peace tional workshop. All artists who submitted PRESERVATION & CONSERVATION plans for a stamp would receive his rubber (There's a Chance for Peace), from the exact moment of the summer solstice until the stamp, and a hand-stamped catalog contai- Light Impressions has available a new 52- exact moment of sunset on the longest day ning all the artist's stamps. page Archival Supplies Catalog. They spe of the year. cialize in acid free materials for the storage AUDIO ART and display of photographs, prints, textiles Sam Hsieh created a work of art in prc- and other valuable items. Catalog contains test of job routine. Hsieh's tools were one Catherine MacLean exhibited Sound Field, mounting board, portfolio boxes, photo al- time clock, a 16-mm. camera, a wristwatch a work of art which is both sculpture and bums, storage envelopes, mounting comers, alarm, with microphone and loudspeaker. drawing, using electronically generated artist's paper, framing kits, aluminum sec- Once an hour, 24 hours a day for a year, sound as her medium. She studied with tion frames, etc. Write Light Impressions Mr. Hsieh punched a timecard into his Michael Brewster in San Francisco. Corp., P.O. Box 3012, Rochester, NY The exhibition took place at the timeclock in his New York apartment. Each Vancouver Art Gallery through 13 Septem- time he repeated this act-8,760 times in ber. Conserving and Preseruing Library Mate* all-he photographed himself on a frame of ak, the 27th Annual Allerton Park Institute, film. The amplified wristwatch alarm work Soundings, the big exhibition at SUNY will take place at the University of Illinois at him up on the hour-most of the time. He ,at Purchase, from 20 September through Urbana-Champaign, 15 - 18 November 1981 was late on1y 131 cases. 23 December, will involve not only an For information and registration, write to To add to all that, he shaved his head in exhibition of paintings, sculpture, books, Conferences & Institutes, 116 Illini Hall, the beginning and during the course of the environmental pieces, records and audio- Univ. of Illinois, 725 S. Wright St., Cham- year allowed his hair to grow out. The works, films and events and workshops, paign, IL 61820 or call Mary Bussert, Pro- timecards were also witnessed by a friend but also a commissioned work by Los An- gram Secretary, at (217)333-2882. each day and sealed in plastic. geles artist Douglas Hollis, performances by At the end of the year, the film was run David Tudor, Peter Phillips and Alvin The Conference on Preservation Manage- off for guests, lasting about 6 minutes in Lucier, the Glass Orchestra. Vexations by ment for Performing Arts Collections, spon- all. (Melvin Maddocks, Christian Science Erik Satie, will be performed by Richard sored by the Theatre Library Association, Monitor). Cameron from 27 through 28 October, will take place in April 1982 in Washington, a 20-hour marathon, the first solo per DC. Alzek Misheff showed his 12 minute frormance of this work. In September, The Conference is directed toward library presentation, Diary of Swimming Across the work was performed by 8 different and archival students, conservators, collec- the Atlantic, at the Collective for Living pianists at station KPFK in Los Ange- tion staff administrators, private collectors, Cinema, in New York City on 3 August. les. manufacturers of archival supplies and Liz Phillips' archway made of coiled equipment, administrators of performing Creative Time presented Art on the copper tube, solar sensors and panels, and arts companies and organizations who create Beach from 20 June through 13 September, electronic equipment and speakers will the documents which collections preserve. including beach bungalows on pols, a canvas For more information, write to Laraine Cor fill the reception area of the Neuberger painted by the tides of the Hudson River, rell, Special Collections, George Mason Uni- Museum. Called Sun Spots I & IT, this an optical stairway to the World Trade Cen- versity Libraries, Fairfax, VA 22030. ter are among the 12 works shown through- sound arch by artist Liz Phillips reacts to out this period. the movements created by radar frequency The Cathedral Museum in New York City fields. has opened an exhibition, called "Conserva- David Buchan presented "Modern Fa- tion, Restoration, Attributions: Aspects of shions or An introduction of partial seduc- The George Paton Gallery, University of Museum Management", a way of showing tion" at I.C.C. in Antwerp on 9 June. Melbourne, in Australia, exhibited Noise the public some of the activities peculiar to Suzanne Lacy presented a series of events Dana Somoza, whose work has been seen in A $250,000 90-pound volume of Audu- at and/or in Seattle, under the title, Women, many magazines and newspapers. bon's The Birds of America , stolen in June Art & Violence. There was a lecture, a Somoza's first public body of work, com- from a locked glass case at the Peabody workshop for artists and activists, and an posed entirely of 5 cent IBM photocopies Institute Library was recently recovered. exhibition called "Performance Art and and entitled "cheap pictures" was exhibited An agreement with the FBI helped retrieve Social Change," and "Making it Safe," a simultaneously on 1 November 1979 in two the book. No arrests were made. The 9-month art project on violence against galleries in Austin, Texas, as well as on side- volume was one of a set of only 2 dozen still women in a small Los Angeles communi- walks, walls, and utility poles all over the in existence. ty- city. PHOTOGRAPHY Challenge, a boxing /art event, took place Ginny Lloyd, San Francisco multimedia on 4 June atthe Kezar Pavilion in San Fran- artist, was in residence at the Image Re- The Hagley Museum, near Wilmington, DE cisco. Six months earlier, artist Tom Chap source Center from 6 July through 1 August is the site of an exhibit called The Workers' man sent an insulting letter to video artist, where she conducted three workshops at the World: The Industrial Village and the Com- Tony Labat, challenging him to a grudge Resource Center, held a Xerox 6500 Color pany. Town, showing more than 100 photo- match to be conducted under California Copier Workshop, taught a Small Publica- graphs and artifacts as a time clock and State Boxing Commission Regulations. tions Workshop, and helped artists produce dinner pails as well as the oral-history tape From the moment of accepting the chal- a billboard to hang in Cleveland. recordings of relatives and friends of people Ienge, Labat trained intensively as a pro- Lloyd, who is now traveling throughout wh'o worked in the Hagley powder mills. fessional fighter, documenting the process Europe, visiting mail artists and showing For more information, write to P.O. Box and creating a narrative about himself, the what color Xerox can do, also had one of 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807. challenge and about boxing. "Box Cleanly, her billboards on the corner of 9th & Fol- Don't Foul" was a promotional campaign som, thanks to the sponsorship of the Eyes I Shall Save One Land Unvisited is an to gain some financial support. and Ears Foundation in San Francisco. exhibition of contemporary art photogra- The event went off without a hitch, was phy in the South as seen by Jonathan Wil- extensively covered by the media, and the The Electro Arts Gallery in San Fran- liams, the well-known North Carolina poet winner was.....Tony Labat, who will edit cisco recently showed a selection from and publisher, who selected the works in the tape in Long Beach this month. the High Arts Technology show that pre- the exhibition. The exhibition was at the miered at the Library of Congress in International Center for Photography in 1981, COPY ART April Computer Graphics seem to New York City in August. The show demon- be a focus of many artists these days. strated that a significant number of younger The Image Resource Center, 1375 Euclid Southern photographers have broken out of Ave., 106 Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Byron Black, Canadian video artist who provincial roots and joined the mainstream OH 44115 is a professional workspace for has been in the mail art scene for a long of contemporary art photography. artists to promote the integration of state- time, and who teaches video in Japan, had of-theart communications machinery and a one-night exhibition of his Canon color The National Photographic Center has traditional photographic and printmaking copy prints at the Postcard Palace in San opened in Bath, England, with a permanent processes. Francisco. He is also showing a video pre exhibition of the history of photography, For information about membership, lec- gram at the Vancouver Art Gallery called and changing exhibits of the Royal Photo- tures, workshops and residencies, contact "Doors & Windows" with video surveillance graphic Society's 20,000 prints and nega- Warren H. Crain, Director, Image Resource in Japan, the Phillipines and Thailand, offe- tives, including hundreds of daguerreotypes. Center, 1375 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH ring interesting cultural aspects of these The RPS has more than 7000 members, 44115. three Asian societies. including both professional and amateur photograpers as well as 500 American LOST AND FOUND The American Institute of Architects, members. Seattle Chapter, sponsored an exhibit of A truck carrying 600 lithographs of Pablo Camera Portfolio, formerly Portfolio, electrostatic works on paper featuring Piccaso etchings worth an estimated a contemporary educational photography series by Seattle xerographer, Mary S. $480,000was hijacked by three armed men magazine, is pleased to announce their Avery. in late July in Queens. The 600 lithos first photography contest. Top winning represented 15 limited editions of originals Electric Realizations, an exhibition of by the late artist. The reproductions, each photographs will be printed on the cover, color Xerox and mixed media by Rene signed by Marina Picasso, his granddaughter, receive Minolta's new XGM camera, and Yanez, Director of the Galeria de la Razal were valued at $800 each. receive cash awards. Studio 24, in San Francisco and Carl Hey- An entry fee of $10 entitles the photo- ward, artist, writer and formerly media A small portrait by Rembrandt, entitled grapher to submit two photographs. $20 consultant at the NEA, was held at Electre A Portrait of a YoungMan, with an auction entitles the photographer to submit two works in San Francisco. value of up to $1.8 million, was stolen in photographs and receive four consecutive August from Dulwich Picture Gallery in issues of the magazine. Send all work to Eleanor Kent, San Francisco Xerox artist, South London. Camera Portfolio, Photo Contest, Box 265, 92373. will have a show from 1 - 16 October in Me- In early September, the police recovered Redlands, CA xico City at the CUC Gallery. She will be the portrait of Jacob de Gheyn 111, removed showing a new suite of "honey" prints, The Center for Creative Photography, Uni- from its frame, but not damaged. Four color Xerox prints made with honey. men were arrested. This particular painting versity of Arizona, presented The Portfolio had been stolen twice before in the past 15 as Object, all taken from the collection of At Texas A & M's MSC Gallery, there was years. the Center with works by Edward Weston, an exhibition entittled Let's be More than James Van Derzee, Paul Strand, Danny Friends, with color Xerox art by Punk artist Lyon, Lee Friedlander and Jim Dine, among others. POSTAGE STAMPS with a better handle on what the govern- photograph collection management, is avail- ment will do to support the arcs. able from Library Microfilms, 737 Loma The New York Times recently had an article After a flood of telegrams to Charlton Verde, Palo Alto, CA 94303. One of the in the Sunday edition about "Genuine Non- Heston and the White House, President Rea- fine things about this is that you never have Stamps" by Samuel A. Tower, discussing gan and his Task Force on the Arts and Hu- to touch the original photos, it saves space the World Government Postal Service and manities have listened to the public and and improves accessibility, it secures the its issues, designed by artists, where 35- have suggested to recommend that Reagan integrity of the collection, allowing for stamp sheets are for sale by the revitalize the Federal Council on Endow- cooperation and exchange. You also have World Service Authority, Suite 318, Atlan- ments in hopes of unifying efforts by both the ability to put your photos under several tic Building, 930 F St., N.W., Washington, the humanities and the arts to raise chari- subject headings. For more information, DC 20004. table funds from private citizens. They also write to Photo Fiche, Library Microfilms, In addition, the article ddiscusses the work agreed that "peer panels" be regarded as the 737 Loma Verde, Palo Alto, CA 94303. of Robert Indiana, Stuart Davis, Robert fairest method of determining recommen- (415)4941812. Fried and Donald Evans. dations for grants and that a close srudy be University Microfilms International has made of the relationship between federal a published Photographic Views of New York NORfON SIMON MUSEUM and state funding for the arts and humani- City, 1870s - 1970s, from the collenions of ties. the New York Public Library. Included are Norton Simon has been dickering with the Another development has been the sugges- 54,000 photographs marking the develop- authorities of San Francisco to move the tion that tax laws be changed to encourage ment of New York City, its architectural art contained in his museum in Pasadena to more contributions by middle- and higher- achievements, its transportation systems, its the city of the Golden Gate. Associates say income donors to the arts and humanities. ethnic and cultural diversity over the past he has been annoyed by a lawsuit Tied by Suggested was a normal deducation for the 100 years. $3,800from UMI, 300 N. Zeeb three former museum trustees who, among first $1,000 conmbution, and then a tax Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. other things, are challenging the museum's credit of 25 percent for the next $1,000 right to exhibit whatever art it sees fit. The in 1982. The credit would decline by 5 VIDEO trial is scheduled for 14 September in Los percentage points each year and expire in Angeles Superior Court. 1986. There were doubts as to facilitating The San Francisco International Video Fes- The collection, acquired under Simon's this plan this year, and problems of convin- tival will take place in October with 10 days direction through the Norton Simon Foun- cing the majority of the U.S. public that this of programming in a variety of formats. For dation, includes masterpieces of European did not favor the rich. more information, write to SFIVF, P.O. Box 99402, San Francisco, CA 94109. Renaissance artists, French impressionists, There has been an increase in the number Southeast Asian and contemporary art. The of members of Congress that have formed art is loaned by the foundation to the mu- 8 The Satellite Video Exchange Society has the Congressional Arts Caucus. The number issued the 8th international Video Exchange seum which is operated by the Nortonn Si- has now grown to 149, from both political Directory, country by country, printed on mon Inc. Museum of Art. 37 parties, representing states, four territo- newsprint this year for lack of funding by ries and the District of Columbia. On 25 ART & GOVERNMENT the Canada Council. There is an alphabetical September in New York City, the Caucus index. For copies, inclusion in the next d& will hear testimony from artists and all rectory, and general information, write to In Pueblo, Colorado, in a half-abandoned other concerned citizens on the direction of Army supply depot, 40 paintings confis SVE, 261 Powell St., Vancouver, BC V6A the arts community in the 80's. cated from the Nazis at the end of World 1G3. War I1 are being displayed. This repre- The New York State Legislature has sents a small part of the 300 that have Independents Network Video Catalog is passed a law requiring dealers, auctioneers been stored since 1972 in this facility, once out with distribution of such tapes as and others sellers of prints to disclose basic a test site for Army missiles. This, in turn, Christo Running Fence Project, Bob Irwin information about artistic "multiples," in- is a small part of a collection of more than Raps, Larry Bell, a video portrait, Judy Chi- cluding photographs, so that the public can 6,000 German war paintings, drawings and cago in 1976, Edward Ruscha, a Conversa have legal recourse in case of deception. photographs confiscated as Nazi propagan- tion, and others. For more informaton and The law is designed to force a dealer or auc- da at that time. These works were brought purchase price, write to Independents Net- tion house to tell a buyer whether the work to the U.S. in 1946 for inventory and stor work, 12077 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 533, Los is properly attributed to the named artist; age and have remained in Army custody Angeles, CA 90025. when the work was signed by the artist; ever since. whether the multiple is a reproduction of a At the urging of students interested in Electronic Arts Intermix has added three work previously created by the artist in a Nazi propaganda techniques, as well as art new staff members to upgrade their organi- different medium; if the declared number of historians and World War I1 veterans zation devoted to the exploration of video multiples in a "limited edition" is the actual as a means of personal expression and com- wanting to see the paintings, the Army number, and whether there are other edi- agreed to put some of the paintings on dis- munication. For more information, catalog tions of the same or virtually the same play by propping them against the ware- prices, etc., write to EAI, 84 Fifth Ave., work. house walls. New York, NY 10011. MICROFICHE NEWS From the bleak notices in late May and * The New Museum's summer show was called Stay Tuncd: Video in the Context of June to the increased encouragement in Photo Fiche, the latest development in July and August, we now reach September other Media, and included work by Robert Cumming, Brian Eno, Charles Frazier, Do- nald Lipski,Howardena Pindell, Judy Rifka, Leet, and Chrisanne Stathacos. A catalog and made it possible for Artrain's activities Allen Ruppersberg, and Irvin Tepper. will be published to document this project to tour in eight Rocky Mountain states. so write to A Space, 299 Queen St. West, Since then, it has toured through the Mid- LBMAVIDEO is a new bulletin from the Suite 507, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5V west. In early October it will return to Long Beach Museum of Art Video , the 129. Michigan for its final tour of the year, and only consistently active video showcase and in 1982 will travel to the West Coast and alternative production center in Southern Lee Waisler, L.A. amst, who dumped five to Alaska. California. Included is news of exhibitions tons of horse poop in front of the L.A. The miniature art museum is free to the and competitions, productions completed, Times to protest a review of his work last public, having an attached studio car. (There grants available, employment, interviews, spring has now decided to stage a protest are five railroad cars in all: three for exhibi- critical reviews as well as feature amcles against nuclear proliferation on the steps tions, one for the studio, and a caboose for about and by artists. For more informa- of City Hall in Los Angeles on 16 Septem- the staff). Artrain resident artists can de tion, write to LBMA VIDEO Newsletter, ber. To spread the word, he has stenciled monstrate their arts and crafts to the pub- 2300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA his message on the street in about 50 sites lic in that studio car. The art is well dis- 90803. around the city. The graphic message shows played, good lighting and adequate labelling a target with a big X, with two smaller N's, help the public appreciate what is travelling Video 80/1 is the second issue of this and the words "Target LA", including the through their town. Many arts councils and oversize tabloid magazine. This issue fea- day, time and location of the event. The much local sponsorship of the arts have tures telecommunications with work by Ns stand for no nukes, the X is a further been stimulated by this venture. Peter D'Agostino, Willoughby Sharp, Rick negative. The stenciling may earn Waisler For more information, write to Michigan Brown and others, as well as artists'pages a $500 fine and/or six months in jail! Artrain, 316 Fisher Bldg., Detroit, MI including work by Chip Lord, Tony Oursler, 48202. Howard Fried, Tony Ramos, Dana Atchley, 9 Three artists, currently living in Manhat Michael Smith, Ilene Segalove, Joe Rees, tan, installed their work in the apartments NEW YORK CITY and Sanborn and Fitzgerald. This mag is of a gutted building nearby. The work, Wall1 quarterly for $10.00 a year from Video 80, Paper in a Burnt-Out Building in the South New York will be booming with art events 229 Corrland ST., San Francisco, CA 94110 Bronx, is on paper permanently affixed to this fall: a new primitive art wing will be the apartment walls. The work could be opened at the Met in January 1982; the new Fandangos on the World's First T.V. Con- viewed from outside or by entering the Asia Society gallery at 725 Park Avenue vention is a new publication from Holland, building. opens on 15 October; the Giorgio Morandi documenting a project by Raul Marroquin, The three artists were Brad Melamed, retrospective opens at the Guggenheim on where the actual convention held in Amster- Andrea Evans, and Brian Buczak. The exhi- 20 November; an intermedia show between dam in June 1980 consisted of 250 TV sets bition was sponsored by Fashion Moda, the photography and literature opens at the Je- discussing their mutual interests, corning spaceless initiator of innovative exhibitions wish Museum, called Kajka-Prague; Atget from Australia, France, Germany, Saudi A- in New York City and its environs. What from the MOMA's collections from 3 Oct. rabia, U.S.S.R., the Netherlands, etc. A hila- the artists did to a building, rendered func- through 3 January and much, much more. rious documentation in English and in tionless by social and economic disaster, was Dutch, but giving us better insight into the ' to create a new life as a gallery space. A criminal charge against 26-year-old ar- technological world of communication, tist John Halpern of SoHo, who was accused making the network more comprehensible. Materials for the Arts, a three-year-old of planting a bomb atop a tower of the The primary goal of this issue of Fandangos nonprofit program run by the New York Brooklyn Bridge in August 1979 has been is the continuation of the dialogue that was City Department of Cultural Affairs, acts dropped at the request of Manhattan Dis- opened during the T.V. convention between as a clearinghouse for the many resources trict Attorney's office. The artist main- man and machine. available to fill the immediate needs of New tained that the device was an "environmen- York's cultural community. After canvas- The Convention is also available in a one- tal sculpture" and that he was guilty only of sing the city for busineses and individuals hour video tape, available for $600. The practicing his art. issue of Fandangos is available for $4.00 with potentially useful items such as furniture, carpets, typewriters, cameras, etc., from Stichting Agora, Boschstraat 74, 8 A Manhattan artist and 30 union bridge who also have an interest in aiding the arts, 6211 AX Maasmcht, Netherlands, T 043- painters applied 140 gallons of pink, plum Materials for the Arts directs the artist or 13129. purple and blue paint to a rusty bridge's arts organization to the right source. All base line and upper arc on the abandoned donations are tax-deductible. INNOVATIVE ART West Side Highway at Canal Street on Aug. It has been a prototype for other cities, 1, called "Hudson Summer Sunset." The A Space in Toronto sponsored an exhibition and now has generated more than $250,000 artist, Eric Arctander, also persuaded some called Terminal Building Project during July worth of donations. The program is threa- ironworkers to prop a long steel beam on in which they found a building slated for tneed by financial problems due to cuts in the bridge's weedy roadbed and lean it demolition in August. The owners agreed city and state funding programs, as well as against the structurels fretwork. The artist to allow artists access to the building so that the NEA cuts. had a still photographer and a video camera- in early July, the artists began to work di- man recording the progress of the work. For rectly onto the exterior surface of the Artrain, created by the Michigan Council this work, he received a $4,500 grant from mammoth structure, 185 ft. x 300 ft. long! for the Arts, started operations in 1971 I.T.T. World Communications Inc., and Included in the show were Paul Campbell, throu~houtMichigan. After two highly sue the donated labor of the bridgepainters' General Idea, Rae Johnson, Wendy Knox- cessful years there, the NEA took notice union. "The Discerning Eye" is a show of fakes, jects, exhibitions, workshops and studios. The United Nations has asked its members forgeries, facsimiles, and direct copies of For more information, write to and/or, to stop sending works of art, to keep U.N. prints by Matisse, Durer, Chagall, Cezanne, 1525 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. headquarters from turning into "The Old Whistler, Rembrandt, Callot, and others at Curiosity Shop." Allowed to give what they the Associated American Artists through Real Art Ways in Harford, Connecticut wanted, the members sent all kinds of 3 October. presented Graffiti by Crash and Lady Pink, "horrors" or white elephants. New York graffiti artists whose work was ARTISTS' SPACES painted directly onto RAW'S walls. Gare d'Orsay in Paris is being renovated Beginning on 1 September, the John Cage and transformed into the Museum of the You've heard about "bicoastal", but you Festival is being staged by RAW. Highligh- 19th Century, an art showcase, to open in haven't heard about Midwest Coast, a non- ting the Festival will be an American pre- 1982. profit umbrella organization in which a vari- miere performance on 25-26 September of ety of cultural and educational programs are Cage's monumental 12-hour work, Empty The U.S. Government is considering retur- flourishing, dealing with art and agriculture. Words, with John Cage, in person. The ning to West Germany much of a 6,000 There is a creative studio, living and exhibi- Festival also includes works in music, dance, piece collection of World War I1 German art tion spaces, which can accomodate up to 7 poetry, visual art, video and film, created commissioned by the Nazi government to artists. Workshops include papermaking, and inspired by Cage, America's foremost glorify its military conquests. bookmaking, textile printing, sculpture and living artist. If returned, much of the collection would collage. There is a bi-annual Midwest Coast On exhibit at RAW from 1 - 16 Septem- have to be closed to the public because dis- Letter, and membership ranges from "strug- ber are plexigrams, etchings, lithographs by play of Nazi insignias is against German law. gling artist" at $12.00, regular for $20, to Cage, including never before seen works larger amounts. For more information, from the artist's own collection. For more Two 15th-century paintings by Albrecht write to RR 1, Clinton, WI 53525. information, write Real Art Ways, Box Durer that were stolen from a German cas- 3313, 40 State St., Hartford, CT 06103. tle occupied by American troopers in 1945 ART, an alternative space and gallery must be returned by a New York lawyer, supporting diversity and indepencnce, INTERNATIONAL NEWS Edward I. Elicofon, who is also an art recently sponsored The Money Show,which collector. The recipient will be the East included performance art and works about Galerie S:t Petri Archive of Experimental German museum, Kunstsammlungen zu Wei- money, money in relation to the arts, cash- and Marginal Art in Lund, Sweden does mar. The two oil-on-wood portraits were and-carry art works, words, toys, free post- some innovative and daring things, among purchasd by the lawyer in 1946 for $450 cards, throw-away art, art money, and them developing "Unlimited Expression" in each from a young American ex-serviceman. works using money either as their subject their space in Lund for freedom of action, Because the judgment was in the form of or object including all media. For more infor- creating an experimental and creative atmos- a "summary judgment", which denies any mation, contact 10 East 18th St., NYC. phere to allow those with new ideas, inven- trial whatsoever, the lawyer, 77, expressed tors, philosophers, original thinkers, to par- disappointment and said he would appeal. The Artspace Nms, published by Art ticipate in using the space if they have a pre- Papers in Atlanta, Georgia, will be in the monition of the future in their respective NEW PERIODICALS mail shortly to all aritsts' spaces and parti- fields-music, poetry, science, or even art cipants at the Beyond Survival conference. In the past they have had an exhibition of Sites is a new "literary" magazine in an ex- For more information, write to Art Papers, some tendencies in modem contemporary citing format. Basically, it is an architectu- 28 16th St., N.W., Atlanta, GA 30309. art during the 1970s in Poland, typewritings ral magazine in a new format-a bit larger Contributions from any and all artists and by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Crime Everywhere than a 10 inch business envelope, it is read spaces are being solicited. in July, and published the documentation of vertically, but as it opens, it has an exten- the performance of Marinus van Dyke in sion on one end which has three rings and/or, the amsts' space in Seattle, has March 1981. For more information, write punched into it, to create a loose-leaf maga- changed its structure as of 1 September P.O. Box 1507, 221 01 Lund, Sweden. zine-each issue dedicated to a different 1981. No more performances and exhibi- neglected building, public place or monu- tions are slates for its calendar. Instead, On 1 September, an American art exhibi- ment. Included are historical and contem- it continues with its Video Editing Facility tion opened in Peking after United States porary photographs as well as maps, visitor's for artists and independent producers, it officials refused last-minute demands by information and walking tours. There is supports the NX Library, a unique center their hosts to remove 13 modern abstract also sculpture, urban design mingled for contemporary arts materials with a focus paintings. It is the first art show sponsored with literature and architecture. 6 times a on periodicals, which will be located at 911 by the United States Government since the year, Sites seems to grow with each number E. Pine St., it supports Soundwork, a com- Communist takeover. Arranged by the ICA and costs $5.00 for one year or $9 for two poser-oriented new music organization, with the cooperation of the Boston Museum ($10 for annual institutional subscription) which as of July 1981 has its new newsletter of Fine Arts, included are classic works by to Sites, 446 West 20th St., New York, NY and is the publisher of Spar, a new contempo- James McNeill Whistler, John Singer 10011. rary arts magazine that will begin publica- Sargent, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler tion in October. and Morris Louis. The Chinese Pad obiected Trace, a new Canadian architectural quar- and/or now serves as an umbrella for to works by John Marin, Adolph Gottlieb, terly, made its first appearance in early all these activities , providing administrative Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, Hans Hof- 1981. The first issue emphasized Canadian support and fiscal management services for mann, Franz Kline, Morris Louis, Fried1 architecture, but also included a profile of each of the groups operating under its Dzubas, Frankenthaler and Jules Olitski. a fine collection of architectural records, umbrella. One of and/or's projects is to The show closes in Peking on September the Canadian Center for Architecture. For assist a group of artists, arts organizations 30 and then moves to Shanghai. further information, write to Trace, Suite and small businesses in the development of 330, 144 Front St., West, Toronto, Ont. a warehouse building as a center for pro- M5J 2L7. 105 Numbers 15 - 17 can be received via sub- Architecture, published by Geddes Brecher format shows the experimental risks which scription for $1.75. Back issues for $1.00 Qualls Cunningham, is a large tabloid-size, some artists take to change the form of a each. Write to PIM, Editor Zagreus Bowery, fourpage newsletter on architecture and magazine. 257 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012. urban design,projects of buildings in Phila- There are four separate enclosures in a delphia, openings of new buildings in the transparent vinyl envelope: first, the hand- is an international literary forum Northeast, and awards, people and events. bound enfolding graphic sequence which Letters For more information, write to GBQC, opens horizontally like a Japanese book; for women and men, committed to shared 2410 Pine St., Philadelphia, PA 19103. Z Views: Zyga Assemblage I documents ideas, feelings and experience through the and presents work of photographers, publication of poetry, fiction, dreams, gra- Artribune is a new magazine from Belgium. musicians, visual artists, and conceptual phics, and particularly letters which are of Printed in two langauges, French and Fle- theater artists drawn from the San Fran- special meaning to their creators. Forthcom- mish, the magazine appears to be well cisco Bay Area. Included are reviews of ing issues will be Men, Dreams, Mothers & financed, a news magazine trying to cover the Wearable Art Show by Joe and Bar- Children. Subscriptions are 4 issues for all of Belgium, as we11 as the international bara Ramos, photographs, as well as a $10, $20 for institutions, and $15 foreign scene. Besides exhibition reviews, there story entitled Beefcake Becomes a Robot subscriptions. Write to P.O. Box 786, are some interesting columns with Bernard by Barbara Gravelle, one of the editors of Church Street Station, New York, NY Marcelis, owner of Librairie Post Scriptum, the magazine. Mini Mag is a playful verti- 10008. On 26 October, there will be a per- writing about what has been seen lately in cal fold-out with color Xerox cover dis- formance at the Public Theatre entided: an publications. Film, performance, thea- playing a humorous transcription of a Letters, a Magazine in Performance. ter, Paris exhibitions, and other items are conversation between "Television" and also included. 11 issues a year, from 73 rue "Magazine" along with Xerox illustra- Art Proof is a collaborative art project Gachard. 1050 Brussels. tions; and Z Views: Zyga Assemblage whose purpose is to stimulate dialogue from I1 is the critical magazine with interviews, all quarters concerned with contemporary Notes is a newsletter from Davis & Schorr essays, an article on film, a poster by art issues. Included in this first issue (1981) Impho, and an interview with Neil Sheehan, Art Books, which will contain information is an article by Philip Lipmans on Photogra- manager of The Squares and designer of the useful to art and book collectors. The first phy and Meaning; Eve Laramee's One Be- Liquid Bracelet, one of which is included in issue (Summer 1981) contains tips on the come the Table; Mary Weber's Toward a each issue of the assemblage. care and handling of books as well as an- Functional Art; Mark Levy's Is Art Criticism The Zyga Assemblage also includes nouncements regarding an art book and an Necessary?; and others. Edited by Mary We- Soundz, a cassette tape which has on one exhibition. ber and Gregg Fledeerman, this comes out side a conceptual theater piece in sound, For anyone wishing a free copy of the three times a year.510.00 (US & Canada), and on the other, pieces by the musicians Newsletter, contact the store by mail, $18.00 airmail elsewhere. Single issues are interviewed. phone, or in person at 1547 Wesnvood Blvd. $4.00. Order from Artproof Publications, The three persons involved in this innova- Los Angele, CA 90024. Pier Seventy, San Francisco, CA 94107 or tive magazine are Bebe Bertolet, an Oakland 871 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94107. artist and filmmaker; Barbara Gravelle, for- Crawl Out your Window, edited by Melvyn merly a publisher, who was literary editor; Freilicher and Eleanor Bluestein, is a maga- Blueprints , the quarterly newsletter of the and Kirk Lumpkin, poet and percussionist, zine which incorporates work of many new National Building Museum in Washing who directed the sound assemblage. writers and artists. The photos are well ton, DC, is a tabloid size, well printed re- Zyga Assemblage has been published in an screened, and although the 8% x 11 inch cord of accomplishments, news, book re 250, 225 format is large, the offset from typed copy edition of of which are available views, film and video reviews, and research $35.00 25 is a neat package with over 90 pages in an for per copy. The first were news about the building in which the Mu- issue. The mag has great energy, showing signed and numbered by the artists and are seum finds itself, the old Pension Building. $200.00. the San Diego County laid-back society available for collectors for For New technology, new records management something about artists and writers. For more information, write to Zyga Multirnt techniques are also explored. Available more information, contact 553 3 Moon- dia Research, 2327 - 5th Street, Berkeley, with membership from the National Buil- light Lane, La Jolla, CA 92037. CA 94710. ding Museum, 440 G St., NW, Washington, DC 20001. Cultura, a general cultural magazine on art Public Illumination Magazine, a non-weekly PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE and literamre, in French, edited by Giu- where issues appear "approximately mon- thly" has theme issues, with this little seppe Recchia, published by Shakespeare a The Center for Arts Information has avail- magazine that costs 50 cents tackling and Company, and distributed by Jean able a new publication called Whereuithal: Artifice (no. ll), Tongues (no. 12), Michel Place, 12 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, A Guide to Resources for Museums and Husbands (no. lo), and Rejects (no. 14). 75005 Paris, has just been issued in its first Historical Societies in New York State, Smaller than pocket-size, P.I.M. has many 1981. for $5.00 plus 75 cents postage and hand- fascicule for Summer There are illustrations which are new wave to old- ling from CAI, 625 Broadway, New York, articles on the New Italian painting, an fashioned. There is a "Saint of the Week" NY 10012. article on the twilight of the avant-garde, column,which is for the most part legiti- some indepth essays on James Joyce, an mate, but it is hard to say whether the 9 Gemini G.E.L. has published the second in article on realism, and book reviews on art rest of the magazine is legitimate or out- a series of booklets, showing the lithographs Tabloid size on fine book paper. Write to rageous. It is definitely funny! of the late Philip Guston. The seven prints Paris for more information about subscrip- The miniature mag certainly mixes strong illustrated were all drawn, printed and s tion and frequency. images and strong words (250words or less) signed prior to his death last year, and a and "entertains." Available in stores in New first group of 8 prints were published last 'yga is a new type of magazine* York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Sari Fran- a ma@zine April, just before he died. The booklet is a magazine that takes .-isco, Calgary, London-paris and Zimbabwe, available from Gemini G.E.L., 8365 Melrose that is a multiple, a multimedia multiple, believe it or not! as well as being an art object. This new Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90069. " The Publishing Center for Cultural Re- printed up showing a large group of men ART READER sources has a new book, Craft Artist Mem- and women protesting against the artists bership Organizations 1978, a report from logically excluded from the exhibitions and Art & Text for Winter 1981, the new Aus- the NEA, available for $3.50 from the from the Museum's programs, and the media tralian art magazine, contains some interes- Center at 625 Broadway, New York 10012. took up the cause. ting articles on post modernism by John Young and Terry Blake, plus an essay by ma The following galleries have produced Lucinda Childs Dance Company will be Terry Smith orienting the reader to Moder- price lists of their publications for infor- in residency in Washington, DC under the nism and Realism. There are manifestos for mation and purchase: auspices of the Washington Project for the a furure Sculpture Triennial and book The Arts Council of Great Britain, Publi- Arts, from I2 October thraugh 28 October reviews. A fine balance in this new quarter- cations Office, has a list of exhibition cata- with workshops and studio presentations. ly. $16.00 (plus $4.00 airmail postage) to logs and photography books for 1980/81 For more information, contact WPA, 400 Art. & Text, Prahran College of Advanced (105 Piccadilly, London WIV OAU); Seventh St., N.W., Washington, DC 20005. Education, 142 High St., Prahran, Vic. 3181 The Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Australia. Boylston St., Boston, MA 02115 has a list Group Rockola performed at Previews in with prices of their publications; San Francisco on 12 July. Futurist Theater Print News published by the World Print The La Jolla Museum of Contemporary will also perform on 13 November at La Council for August/ September has a theme Art has a list of publications from 700 Mamelle, and Group Rockola will appear at issue dedicated to Words as Images, experi- Prospect St., La Jolla, CA 92037; La Mamelle in The Gaglione Brotbers on ments in typographic printmaking with and Pace Gallery Publications has a list 2 December. works by Peter Koch, Tom Phillips, Kriwec, of available publicadons from 32 East 57th and others. Articles by Peter Koch and St., New York, NY 10022. ART & TECHNOLOGY Alistair Johnston give an indepth view of these prints, and zhere is a bibliography of PUBLIC ART Sony has just displayed a new camera, the books, periodical articles, journals and cata- iMavica, which operates through the appli- logs. Bryant Park's first Artist-in-Residence, Kit- cation of advanced electronic and video Yin Snyder, is building a sculptural environ- technology, using no film, but a magnetic Real Life Magazine for Summer 1981 is a ment that resembles architectural fragments. videodisk, which holds 50 still color pic- bargain for such pithy words. A symposium The installation is part of an ongoing artist- tures, and can be viewed instantly on a on Post-Modernism with David Salle, Julian in-residence project ca-sponsored by the home television screen. The image can also Schnabel, Craig Owens and others, an articl Bryant Park Restoration Corporation and be transmitted over telephone wires. The article by Dan Graham, "The Artist as Ada- the Public Art Fund, Inc. disk pack wit1 cost about $2.40 each. The lescent" by Howard Singerman, and an in- camera will sell for about $600 next year. terview with Brigitre Bardot makes this a Kenneth Snelson has installed a new winner at $2.00 at your local newsstand. sculpture, Tree I, at the National Library The coming together of art and technolo- of Medicine in Bethesda, MD, under the aus- gy is an annual event on the Hampshire Craft International for summer 1981, the pices of the General Service Administra- Col!ege campus in Amherst, Massachusetts. quarterly magazine of the crafts of the mo- tion's Art-in-Archi~ectureProgram. Cinema, video, physics, politics, social sci- dern world, edited by Rose Slivka, deals Artists Missing in Action was a protest ences, as well as other disciplines combine with the Adcraft Connection in a scholar- action on the part of the Arts Coalition for to help people discover the different ways ly way. Eleven essays by museum curators, Equality, ACE, a coalition of hundreds of you can do things. craftspersons, critics examine the relation- artists, arthistorians, critin and collectors in The Summer Institute on the Media Arts ships. and distinctions between arts and Southern California, formed for the purpose (SIMA) is a nonprofit organization head- crafts, with many ageold arguments being of informing the public and media of the quaxered in Lincoln, MA. It is accredited questioned in this post-industrial society. discriminatory practices of the Los Angeles by the Massachusetts College of Art and The most insightful bit of writing is con- County Museum of Art. Hampshire College and offers a threeweek tributed by the late critic Harold Rosen- With the current two exhibitions called session each year. The NEA has helped berg, who wrote the essay "Art and Work" Seventeen Artists of the Sixties (no women) support the institute in the past. in 1964. Here, Rosenberg states how art and The Museum as Site-Fifteen Projects (2 is but an action directed toward self-de a Nancy Burson, a concep~akartist, was women), the coalition has tried to bring be- velopmenr. recently granted a patent for a method of fore the art world, the governmental autho- For a newsprint tabloid, CI has a highly picturing a person as old or young. She rities, and the people the discriminatory sophisticated appeal in its high level stan- calls her machine the age machine. policies of the Los Angeles County Museum dated of writing, yet there are important The age machine will make video pic of Art. news items on available grants, book re- tures of an old face and a young face, To bring this into focus, ACE presented a views, exhibitions, and international items. record the differences and process them press conference with performance to voice $12.00 in USA, $16.00 outside to CI, 24 with a computer's help to produce a new their anger, and later that night at the ope Spring St., New York, NY 10012. face of any specific age. ning, they wore masks with the face of Mau- The machine can be used by movie and rice Tuchman, curator of the 60s show, and TV actors to change their apparent age; Art Network 3 and 4 lets the worid know the Waitresses performed in hot pink and plastic surgeons could show patients the that there is energy and fervor in Australia black, singing and dancing about the discri- results of facelifts; the police could update for the arts, as witnessed by an interview mination disease not only against women old photos, and cosmetic makers could with Robert Hughes, a rundown of the First but also against minorities. Posters were forecast a woman's looks year later. Australian Sculpture Triennial, a strong article on women artists in the Triennial, phy is Image Nation 23, with an intro by Gallery " " in Iceland is organized in and lots of reviews of publications, exhibi- David Hlynsky and works by Susan King, and around a special wooden suitcase mea- tions, film, video, photography, network art Janet Zweig, Jim Lang, George Whiteside, suring 45 x 28 x 12 cm. The activities and amsts' spaces. If you want to know Rick/Simon, Suzy Lake, Bobbe Besold, and suring 45 x 28 x 12 cm. The activities un- what is going on "down under", you must more. 48 pages and wow! 1179A King St., dertaken by this noncommercial gallery be read Art Network for $18 Australian for West, Suite B8, Toronto, Canada M6K 3C5. gan in July 1977. Purpose is to attempt to four issues from AN, P.O. Box 439, Broad- Bile, the Dadazine from Chicago, certainly present ideas and methods in contemporary way, 2007, Sydney, Australia.. surprised most of us with large tabloid art. All those interested in participating in printed on translucent, fine paper-a wild Art-Corn, the continuation of La Mamelle's this activity are invited to write to Hannes and wonderful zine from 5228 S. Woodlawn publication program, is no. 14 of an irregu- Laru Son, Gallery " ". Drapuhild 40, Ave., Chicago, IL 60615. lar journal, stressing articles on Video Art, Reykjavik, Iceland. performance, a run-down of exhibitions in Control Magazine 12 includes work by the Bay Area, and a description of some Lili Fischer about herbs and research on La Galleria dell'Occhio, 267 E. 10th St., artists'periodicals which have surfaced in those plants, to show how art s an inter New York City 10009 is accepting proposals the past year or so. . . . Women Artists News subjective process for the artist. Stephen for exhibitions (SASE please). has a special Film issue for Summer 1981. . . Willats' Working with Life and Institutions Pittore Euforico, P.O. Box 1132, Peter Rau (number 3) is a "graphic magazine that discusses the artwork as a basis for social lost its faith in nihilism" with a cover and process and counter-consciousness. There Stuyvesant Station, New York, NY 10009 published the third issue of Me Magazine, story by Gary Panter, works by artists from are articles by Michael Peel, Fred Forest and and issued 12 new sheets of Post Me artist San Diego to Spain, all for a gorgeous $4.00 others involving the changing nature of soci- from 27 Greene St., NYC 10013.. . The Art ety and therefore the basis of the artistic ae stamps. Samples of stamps, ME, etc. for Magazine from the Federation of British Ar- tivity. There are back issues available. Sin- $1.50 each. tists has been redesigned and has a great deal gle copies are a.00 plus 30p. postage to of important information about marketing, Control Magazine, 5 London Mews, Lon- I am writing to ask for your support in a royalties, books and bookworks, and is don W2. Theme is Self-organization and project I have undertaken which requires available from 17 Carlton House Terr., Lon- the Expression of Counter Consciousness. that I raise funds independently. I am in don SW1 Y 5BD.. . Express covers not only the process of fabricating a large mural de architecture, but art and performance as Classified picting the horrors of nuclear war which, if well as design. Large tabloid on bookpaper completed, will be shown in New York for $2.00 ($8.00 a year) from Metropolis Midsouth Small PressIDesign Exhibition, City, Hartford, Connecticut and Baltimore, Austin Peay State University. March 1982. Enterprises, P.O. Box 1218, NYC 10023 Maryland where it will be permanently in- ($30 foreign).. . . European Photography, Artist books, experimental design work, stalled in March of 1982 with a sound track edited by Andreas Miiller-Pohle, not only graphic design, multiple imagery. Write and in theatrical lighting. I have received deals with contemporary photography in for information: Bruce Childs, Austin Peay approximately X of the necessary funds Europe, but with theory, books, exhibi- State University, Clarksville. TN 37040. from Desire Productions in Baltimore and tion reviews, and news. Each issue is ba- Deadline: 30 October 1981. Real Art Ways in Hartford. If you are able sically dedicated to a theme. 6 to Docu- to support my project, I will send you an mentary Photography and 7 to Young Eu- WANTED: Artists' Records-for a mono- original drawing in gratitude and will list you as a supporting contributor. ropean Photographers. 4 issues a year, $20 graph and international discography of -Joseph Nechvatal for surface and $29 for air-35 DM for artists' records by Peter Frank. Publicb 18 No. Moore St. Europe.. . .Criss-Cross Art Communications tion: Mid-1982 (project funded by a grant New York, NY 10013 No. 11/12 has just been issued with contri- from the NEA). Phonograph records only! butions from Tom Johnson, Richard Koste- And artists' records, tpes and cassettes- Another Doo Da Art Auction! 200 oil pain- lanetz, as well as the Heresies Collective, for a complete international discography of tings will be auctioned by E. F. Higgins Ill, CAIRN in Paris, Paul Zelevansky, Cavellini, artists' records, sound art, new music, text- New York City stamp artist, in November. Higgins and Buster Cleveland. 4 issues/$l5 sound and electronic music, and upcoming Beginning bids are $40 each. These pain- to CCAC, P.O. Box 2022, Boulder, CO book-length guide to sound art and artists tings are made to print stamps from them. 80306. Artspace is a quarterly art mag . . . and record and cassette editions, being com- They are 16 x 18 inches in oil, and then from the Southwest featuring all the tradi- piled by B. George and M. DeFoe of one ten made into stamps such as the Red Nudes, tional media as well as papermaking, video, records. maps, and portraits. For more information, earthworks, performance, poetry and new If applicable, send a copy of the record or contact Doo Da Postage Works, 153 Ludlow writing. . in luscious color. A bargain for . tape, information on the label, catalog num- no. 6, New York, NY 10000. $12 from Artspace, P.O. Box 4547, Albu- ber, availability, source, cost, and other dis- querque, NM 87106.. . . Artpolice for Sum- tinctive features of the recording ,, bio- WANTED: Volunteers in the Los Angeles mer 1981 says "It's you!", the 7th anniver- graphy on the artist, complete discography area who want to help Umbrella organize sary issue, with the Newsletter also . . . on the artist, and visual support material. the mail art archives, including the Umbrella Rude Magazine is a gem, something that Peter Frank for phonograph records, one Archive, as well as the periodicals that have anyone in the printing game would appreci- ten records for phonograph records, tapes accumulated in the past four months. The ate especially, but a magazine, a large size and cassettes. Write to M. 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