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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.