After Three Months of Controversy About the Contractor Hired to Restore Watts Towers in Los Angeles, the City Council Has Been A
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WATTS TOWER UPDATE edited by Victor Sorrel1 and published by versary by becoming a quarterly, starting the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, 78 E. Wa- with January 1979 issue. Previously, it was After three months of controversy about shington St., Chicago, IL 60602, available a twice a year publication. the contractor hired to restore Watts Towers upon request. in Los Angeles, the City Council has been Art Hazards News issued its first number in asked to authorize ending the contract and PUBLISHERS' CATALOGS October. Published by the Center for Occu- turning over the project to the State. Several pational Hazards, 5 Beekman St., New actions, however, must be done before the Modern First Editions: Catalogue One by York, NY 10038, its program is to inform long-delayed restoration work can proceed.. Canfield & Stephens includes some rare ar- people of the hazards of arts and crafts ma- One of the key problems will be for the city tists' books, although most of it is literature. terials and how to work with these materials of Los Angeles to negotiate a money settle- Write to Canfield & Stephens, 21 E. 67th St. safely. A Question and Answer column, a ment to end its existing restoration contract New York, NY 10021 for their catalog. column on commerical art hazards by with Ralph Vaughn Associates. Michael McCann, calendar of events, new New York University Press is having a publications, and other pertinent material Cover to Cover Book Sale with savings up such as the Art Hazards Information Center to 90%. Sale ends on midnight, 28 Feb. are highlighted. 10 issues per year for $10. The Canadian Film Institute has published a 1979 so write to them if you haven't re new brochure with its latest publications, ceived their catalog, Washington Square, New Arts, a publication from the New Art including Film Canadiana: 7977-78 for NYC 10003. Association, Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden $16.95, a bilingual publication which docu- Bridge, West Yorkshire, Great Britain, has ments Canadian film production during Davis Art Books, 1547 Westwood Blvd., just been published. It includes an article by 1977 and provides supplementary informa- Los Angeles, CA 90024 has issued List 14, Peter Fuller, discussion of the political situ- tion, including production credits, a list of which is available for $1.00. There is an ation of a new art association and its com- all Canadian features made since 1970, a outstanding collection of exhibition cata- munity, a cartoon by Brodnax, and an in- bibliography of references to Canadian cine- logs, art books, and periodicals. teresting insight into an alternative space ma in major international and Canadian and its community association in Great Bri- periodicals for 1977 including TV periodi- = Arts Council of Great Britain has pub- tain. ISSN 0142-2634. Subscription to cals; information on more than 90 major lished a new catalog of books, catalogues, Numbers 1 - 3 for an individual is tl.OO; film and television organizations; a list of exhibition posters, reproductions, postcards, Library/Institutions £2.50; AirmailIForeign 1500 productions and distribution compa- poetry publications and music in their 5.00. Send checks or postal money orders nies in Canada; information on festivals and 1978179 catalogue. Write to Publications to Treasurer, New Arts Association, Birch- awards, and a full index. Office, ACGB, 105 Piccadilly, London W1V cliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge. There is also a Guide to Film and Televi- OAU. sion Courses in Canada 1978-79 for $6.95. Artsmarket is the new publication of the Ca- This 167-page guide contains courses in over = The MIT Press is having a book clearing, lifornia Confederation of the Arts, a new 70 university, community colleges and edu- with savings up to 80%. Catalog is available monthly journal in tabloid format offering cational institutions in 9 of Canada's 10 from MIT Press, 28 Carleton St., Cambridge, free listings for artists seeking work and for provinces. MA 02142. Sale ends 31 March 1979. employers with positions to fill. The first Write or order from Canadian Film Insti- issue also includes an interview with June tute, Publications Dept., 75 Albert St., Suite LOS ANGELES NEWS Wayne. Available from CCF, 650 S. Spring 1105, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIP 5E7. St., Los Angeles, CA 90014 or dial (213) The new LandauIAlexander Gallery opened 627-1064 to place a listing. MURALS in West Los Angeles with an exhibition de- dicated to "The Stieglitz Perspective", and 0.K. Magazine, a new Xerographic publi- The National Murals Network Newsletter the works of Hap Tivey, a young American cation, is being issued this month. $3.00 for 1978 has a color Xerox cover and re- artist who deals with illusions of light. The per copy from Nihilist Press, 10350% Wil- ports on activities throughout the nation. address of the new gallery is 11046 Santa shire, Los Angeles, CA 90024. One of the important issues throughout the Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. 1978 Newsletter is the tension between Vedere, an art historical periodical invol- professional and collective efforts. Berkeley, 8 The Center for Southern California Stu- ving experiences of ancient and modern art, Diego, Santa Rosa, San Los Angeles, San dies in the Visual Arts has recently been es- has recently been published in Palermo, Mateo, Sebastopol, Portland, Las Vegas, tablished at the California State University, Sicily. Beautifully printed for both typo- Texas, Chicago, New York, Northeast Net- Long Beach, devoted to the identification, graphy and illustrations, this appears to be work, Buffalo and other areas report. study, preservation, and presentation of the a solid scholarly tome, published in the art and visual art resources which exist in Italian language. Single copies cost L. A second printing of the Mural Manual Southern California. Recently, the Center 2,000; subscriptions for 3 issues are has been made to prevent the book from sponsored a seminar on "California since L. 5,000. Send to via S. Lorenzo Colli 242, going out of print. A special discount of 1950" with participants Charles Cowles, cap. 90146, Palermo, Sicily. 30% off the regular price of $5.95 is being Henry T. Hopkins, Marcia Weisman, Robert offered to readers of the Murals Newsletter. Graham, Walter Hopps, and Frederick Weis- Student Forum: The Journal of Student $4.15 per copy (postpaid inside the U.S.) man. Photographers has just been issued. Edited to Public Art Workshop, 5623 W. Madison and published by Glen R. Serbin, the maga- St., Chicago, IL 60644. Say you read it PERIODICALS, NEW AND OLD zine, a quarterly, comes out of Santa Bar- in Umbrella. bara. Amencan Art Journal, an American art his- Included in the first issue is a profile of The New Art Examiner reports on a Guide tory periodical, will celebrate its tenth anni- the Art Institute of San Francisco, an inter- to Chicago Murals: Yesterday and Today, view with Jerry N. Uelsmann, student port- SLIDES Center, c/o SLA, G~oupTravel Unlimited, folios, an historical survey of the Brownie Inc., 1025 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washing- camera, a review of Susan Sontag's On Positive for November 1978 covers MACAA ton, DC 20036. Photography, as well as a calendar for work- in Detroit, but also includes "Conservation shops and contests. Available for $10 for Considerations for Transparency Collec- MUSEUM NEWS one year, $13 for Canadians and $15 for tions" by Peter Kirckmire. Europeans from Student Forum, 25 West The American Victorian Museum in Nevada Anapamu, Studio E, Santa Barbara, CA The Art Gallery of Ontario, Grange Park, City, California was officially opened in 93 101. An exciting magazine! Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1G4 has a 1974, the only museum in America devoted catalog of 453 slides mainly representing exclusively to the 19th century. David 0s- Stop Looking is a new Maass/Modern Myth the AGO collection. The catalog presents born and Charles Woods accumulated the Product from Oakland, California. Published Canadian Artists and NonCanadian Artists. Victoriana and then made their collection every two months, it is an assemblage of All slides are 2 x 2 in. Write to them for into a non-profit education foundaton, now artists' pieces offering space to artists to do their new catalog. located in an old Miner's Foundry. with as they wish. The magazine is now interviewing and accepting interviews for ART LIBRARY TIDBITS Mayor Koch of New York City announced print. recently the possibility of establishing a c In addition, Stop Looking is looking for Several libraries have reported theft of the city-sponsored art gallery to exhibit the ad space or for art pieces. Distributed 10 volumes of ~&;zit's Dictionary of Pain- works of contemporary artists. The Depart- nationwide, spaces cost 4 x 5 ($lo), 5 x 8 ters and Engravers in Great Britain. ment of Cultural Affairs, under Commis- ($20), 8 x 10 ($40). There are also free sioner Henry Geldzahler, is moving to new brief artists' classified ads. Contact Maassl An article on censorship in Library Jour- quarters in the former Huntington-Hartford Modern Myths, 5353 Bryant St., Oakland, nal recently was headlined "For Sex: See Edward Stone Building on Columbus Circle, CA 94618. (The magazine sells for 47 - Librarian." where an information center will be de- 53 cents, depending upon what is marked veloped to handle inquiries from individuals when you find it for sale.) A Union List of Periodicals on Art and and organizations about the arts. Related Subject Fields, compiled by Gra- Art Log is an attempt to provide slides ham Bullock, and published by ARLIS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has re- (never less than twenty an issue) joined with lists holdings of more than 1,500 periodical cently opened Phase I1 of their Egyptian interviews of British contemporary artists.