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. titles in 55 libraries, including the British Collection, covering 1,000 years from 1379 The first two issues explain the intentions Library's Lending Division, the National Art to 380 B.C., including the late 18th to the ideally-the text represents an interview Library at the V & A Museum, the British 29th dynasties. with one or two artists, and the slides are Architectural Library, the British Film the clear, full-color illustrations, which Institute, the Courtauld Institute, and the The de I'Affiche, a new Paris museum can be viewed with a viewer or seen in Royal College of Art. Subjects include art, specializing in poster art, unveiled its latest their mylar sheets. design, fashion, architecture, and photogra- exhibition "Three Centuries of French Pos- The price is costly, but that is because phy; holdings are given for annuals, and for ters," including 150 examples from the mu- production costs are high. 20% of all microform and hard-copy reprints. seum's collection of 70,000 posters with money made from the slides serves as Order from Dawne Leatherdale, 7 Rubens works by Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec. royalty to the artists on the reproduction Court, Worle, Weston-super-Mare, Avon Located at 18 rue du Paradis, the museum is of their work. BS22 9PR for f8.00 (G.00 to ARLIS open daily except Saturday from 10 to 6. Edited by Tony Godfrey, Art Log is members). available for £10 for one issue, 87for three The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has issues and $35 for ten issues. Extra copies The Museum of Modern Art has announ- recently exhibited in one room a group of of the text are available to subscribers for a ced a new standing order plan for art libra- works which the curators have put on their modest fee. Overseas subscriptions to rians, designed to complement its trade dis- "wish list" looking for a few philanthropists Art Log will pay $24.00 for one issue, tribution and membership book programs. to pick up on the holiday mood and buy $60 for three issues, and $180 for ten Subscribers to the new plan will receive them for the museum. They are on loan to issues. notification on publication of titles distribu- the museum from private collectors and art Write to Art Log, 79 North Walls, ted by the New York Graphic Society, with dealers. The show will be up through mid- Winchester, SO23 8DL, Great Britain. list price and order information (no dis- February, including a Calder mobile, a count). All books and catalogs which are Frank Lloyd Wright panel of leaded glass ELECTRONIC MUSIC distributed directly by the Museum will be windows, a Peto painting, among others. shipped automatically on publication, with The Museum of Modern Art's controversial It seems that alternative spaces in Canada billing at 20% discount (25% to member plan to erect luxury apartments atop an are really on an electronic music kick. A libraries). expanded gallery has been approved by the Space in Toronto, in cooperation with the For more information, write to Nancy T, Kranz, Publications Dept., MOMA, 1 1 West State Court of Appeals, but no sign of when C.C.M.C. Music Gallery, held its First 53rd St., New York, NY 10019. construction will begin. A new builder-deve- Annual Festival of Electronic Music this loper has not been signed nor has the final month, featuring works of composers and The Special Libraries Association design for the facade been approved. performers from across Canada who work in will be holding its 70th Annual Conference the medium of electronics and tape music. in Honolulu, 9 - 14 June 1979, celebrating a At the Frick Museum in New York City, Western Front Society also offered the Worldwide Conference on Special Libraries according to John Leonard, it is not per- International Circuit of Electroacoustic with the participation of the Japan SLA and mitted to kneel in order to look closely at Music, coordinated by Simon Fraser Univer- IFLA Special Libraries Division. For more a detail. You are not allowed to point. You sity composer Barry Truax. information, write to SLA Coordination will also be admonished if you happen to drop your sweater. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened a and so on 2 January 1979, the last of the article on "Mitchell's Death", but also in- new Alfred Stieglitz Center Gallery, es- Blenheim Hotel was destroyed in 10 seconds cludes a profile on Close Radio, an inter- pecially for photography exhibitions, thanks to make room for a $ I00 million casino and view of Petr Sternbera, fiction by Dick to art patron Dorothy Norman. hotel complex in Atlantic City. Higgins among other artists who are chro- nicled, with pictures and words. The Seattle Art Museum is embarking on a The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in unique $17 mlllion project: a museum on New York City will resume construction Art Metropole, 217 Richmond St. West, the top two floors of a planned shopping after a hiatus of 37 years, using unskilled Toronto, Canada M5V 1W2 announces center, called Westlake Mall, with land and young people from the area with the $20 the publication of their major Performance parking garage provided by the city, an au- million project. Two 150-foot spires will be book due out in February, with 300 pages, ditorium, restaurants, and skybridges to built on the Amsterdam Avenue end of the 15 essays, as many works by artists, and major department stores, all designed by world's largest Gothic structure. There will an introduction by Germano Celant, edited archrtect Romaldo Glurgola. also be some new interior construction. by Peggy Gale and designed by A.A. Bronson. Price to be announced in the next issue of The Long Beach Museum of Art has re- The Walt Disney Production Company is Umbrella. ceived a vacant, city-owned police station, going to build the Experimental Prototype which is becoming a new video center, with Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) Center, NEW AUDlO CASSETTES storage, post-production facilities and gal- which will open its first phase in 1982 in leries. The inaugural show, slated for Sep- Orlando, Florida. It plans to be a "commu- Audiographics: New/Old explorations in tember 1979, will be Bruce Nauman's nity of ideas" with two major theme areas: Sound & Language Art, produced by New Chambers, Shafts & Tunnels and a new Future World (featuring future choices in Wilderness Foundation, has just been issued variarion of Fish TV by Nam June Paik. energy, transportation, the land, the sea, in this new series. There are quality stereo etc.) and World Showcase (a permanent ex- cassettes with graphic and descriptive mate- The California Museum of Photography position in which guests can wander down rial of experimental and traditional music, opened to the public In December, situated quaint streets sampling food products, en- poetry, storytelling and other sound and in Watkins House on the campus of the Uni- tertainment of each participating nation). language art. Done in the Foundation's own verslty of California. Riverside. On display professional studio, where many members are more than 150 hlstoric photos and n Skyline is a monthly calendar-magazine of the New York City creative community nearly 100 cameras used over the last cen- listing exhibitions, lectures and events in have trained, learning studio recording and tury. Photos Include those of Ansel Adams, architecture and design, many of them production, the cassettes are of the highest Walker Evans, Edward Weston and the Key- free, in New York City. Many of these quahty. stone-Mast collection of stereograph cards. include the regular free exhibitions of the Among the first series are Breath Chants Institute for Architecture and Urban and Music by Philip Corner; Peyote Songs ART & GOVERNMENT Studies at 8 West 40th St., which publishes sung by Leonard & Mary Crow Dog; Spen- Skyline at $1.00 a copy. cer Holst reading from his own works; An- The National Endowment for the Arts nea Lockwood in her sound pieces, Jackson announced recently the establishment of Vance Bibliographies, P.O. Box 229, Mac Low doing poetry and music; Charlie Cultural Resources, Inc., a nonprofit orga- Monticello, IL 61856, offers the following Morrow doing chants; Jerome Rothenberg nization which is deslgned to broaden and publications for sale: singing from the Navaho Horse Songs of strengthen pnvate-sector support of the Robert Charles Venturi: A Bibliography Frank Mitchell, which are "total trans- arts. Carl F. Stover, former director of by Lamia Doumato, $1.50, #A 25. lations" and many, many more. Alison the Endowmen's Cultural Resources De- The Buildings of Atlanta by James Carl- Knowles has just released a Sound Perfor- velopment Project, will serve as president of ton Starbuck is another bibliography pub- mance ~eriesas well. There is a Sampler the new organization. The principal mission lished in November 1978, #A 26, $3.00. Cassette of 60 minutes with excerpts from will be to conduct long-range programs to Recent Architecture of the Dallas-Fort each of the artists represented, which costs encourage cooperation in support of the arts Worth Metroplex: A Bibliography of Books $6.00. and cultural institutions by the private sec- and Articles, 1955-1977, by Carole Cable. All other cassettes costs $8.00 for 60 tor. #A 27, $1.50. minutes and $8.50 for 90 minutes. Send check or money order to The New Wilder- The Treasury Department has announced Time magazine featured an article on ness Foundation, Inc., 365 West End Ave., that the first gold medallions bearing the Post-Modernist architecture in the U.S. New York, NY 10024. images of American artists may be offered entitled "Doing Their Own Thing." It for sale in the spring of 1980. The sale of appeared in the January 8 issue of the Performance artist, Rachel Rosenthal, has Amer~canArts Gold Medallions was autho- magazine. just released an aud~operformance, Grand rized by the last Congress over objections Canyon, which is available for $7.95 each. from the Treasury. Each medallion w~ll PERFORMANCE Grand Canyon was first performed at the have either one ounce or one-half ounce of "Metamagic" exhibition at the Cal State gold. Grant Wood is a visual artist to be New Performance in its third issue features Dominguez Bills Art Gallery on 21 Febru- honored in 1980; Frank Lloyd Wright in "West Coast Art" including an interview ary 1978 and was subsequently broadcast 1982; Calder m 1983. with Winston Tong, an article on The For- several times by Radio Station KPFK. An mats by choreographer Brenda Way, interview with Rosenthal in connection with ARCHITECTURE Rhythm as Form by Athena Tacha, and the piece was also broadcast at KPRK and among other articles, "Mitchell's Death" is recorded on Side 2 of the Grand Canyon The Bally Manufacturing Company received by Moira Roth. cassettes. For further details, contact R. final permission from New Jersey to tear Rosenthal, 2375%. So. Beverly Glen, Los down the Blenheim Hotel's rotunda (listed High Performance features an interview of Angeles, CA 90064. in the National Register of Historic Places) Linda Montano by Moira Roth and another VEC Audio-Exchange: Programme One: fiche reproducing the 303 negative photo- .Art conservationists, who met recently in Here is the sound of Anna Banana, Bill graphic plates that the Library of Congress Rome, representing 19 nations, are finding Gaglione, John M. Bennett, Leonard Frank received in 1949 from the estate of Orville it more difficult to conserve art treasures Duch, Paul Carter, Rod SummersIVEC, the Wright. Most of the views on the glass-plate because of the energy crisis, the high costs "Audio Experience" at Galeria Remont, negatives were taken by the Wright brothers of fuels and shortages of fuels. A return to Warsaw, in November, 1978. This pro- themselves between 1898 and 1911 to docu- simplicity and to sealed display cases seems gramme is available in exchange for one ment their successes and failures with their to be the trend. Control of environment by cassetteltape audio piece from you for new flying machines. air conditioning, humidity control, etc. has Programme 2. Write to V.E.C., P.O. Box This is the first publication by LC to been hampered by the energy problem. 1051, 6201 BB, Maastricht, The Nether- produce graphic material on microfiche, lands. available from the Information Office in .Art experts say that Rome's ancient person, or by mail from the Superintendent monuments will be reduced to crumbling PHOTOGRAPHY of Documents, USGPO, Washington, DC lumps of marble by the year 2000 unless 20402 (SIN 030-014-00003-1) for $4.00 conservation work starts soon. Print Letrer 19 features the results of an plus $1.00 postage if mailed overseas. international sudey on collecting color The Radio City Music Hall is still in photography, an interview with Inge Bondi Andreas Feiningec New YO& the '40s trouble, while three plans are now being and Robert Mapplethorpe, coverage of the (text by John von Hartz) is a new book by weighed by the New York State Urban photography scene in West Germany, care Dover Publications ($6.00) and an exhibi- Development Corporation to keep the land- and processing of archival black and white tion of the photographs being presented at mark theater open, including "air rights" prints, plus their regular features. the New York Historical Society, where and a Superstructure over it. "New York in the '40s" is being shown at The New Yorker for 4 December 1978 170 Central park West at 77th St. until 1 * The California Office of Historic Pre- featured an article by Janet Malcolm June. servation has allocated a $50,000 matching entitled, "Two Roads" comparing Calla- grant for the acquisition of the Rudolph M. han and Eve Sonneman. CONSERVATION & PRESERVATION Schindler House at 833 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood. The Friends of the Florence Thompson, whose photograph was Technology & Conservation for Fall 1978 Schindler House, which was awarded the snapped by Dorothea Lange, when she was features an article on "Light Cleaning: Laser grant, plans to buy, restore and operate the stranded in 1936 with three of her children Technology for Surface Preparation in the building and its gardens as an architectural in a Central California labor camp, now lives ~~ts,"by John F. Asmus, associate research center for the benefit of the public and the in Modesto, California, but is famous physicist at the University of California, San architectural community. throughout the world as "Migrant Mother." Diego. Asmus has been instrumental in the Contributions are being solicited: $25 She regrets that she never has received cleaning of capitals on the Palazzo Ducale in for individuals; supporting, $50; students, anything out of it, although she is proud to Venice, the cleaning of leather-bound $10. Checks should be made out to Friends be the subject of such a famous photograph. volumes infested with fungi, as well as at- of the Schindler House, and mailed to 833 N. tempts to discover the lost Battle of An- Kings Road, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Marion Palfi, famed photographer for her ghiari of Leonardo da Vinci. social research, died recently in Los Angeles. LOST AND FOUND Instrumental in developing a contemporary Angkor Wat has recently been opened to style of "social research photography" she the public after the Cambodian government In late December, three Cezanne paintings taught, gave lectures, and created major pro- had closed it during the new regime. Sadly, with a total value of $3 million were stolen jects such as Suffer Little Children, 1946- it is reported that the largest standing reli- from a locked storage room in the Art Insti- 1949 (on the effect of poverty, neglect and gious bugding in the world is being threa- tute of Chicago. Suspicion leads to an inside institutionalization on chiIdren); There is tened by water, fungi and droppings of ad- job. No More Time, 1949;Ask Me If I Got Jus- mals. Just before the Chicago theft, tice, 1974-77 (on prisons and prisoners). Rembrandt's Portrait of a Rabbi was stolen The primary collected source of her work A recent editorial in The New york Times from the De Young museum in San Francis- is the exhibition catalog Invisible in Ame- pleaded for the preservation of Cleopatra's co, along with three other less valuable ~ain- rica, published by the University of Kan- Needle, another Egyptian artifact, right tin@. Some experts say this ~alntin~is not sas Museum of Art in 1973. outside the Metropolitan Museum's door, an original Rembrandt, but by a lesser fol- which has just the ~~~~l~ of lower. Meantime, tighter security is being Lida Moser in the 10 December issue of the Dendur, Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year- enforced at the museum, since the thieves Arts & Leisure Section of the New York old granite shaft, is in sad shape due to had dropped through a skylight at the muse- Times wrote an article on "Storehouses pollution. um the night before Christmas. for Photographic Treasures" with profiles A security consultant has been hired by on the Library of Congress, National Ar- .~h~ committee on ~~~~h~~~~~~i~~ and the De Young museum in preparations for chives, and the Museum of the City of ~~~h~~.~~has a 1944 murdby the the King Tut show that is coming there in New York. late Rockwell Kent. The mural is dominated by angels hovering over airplanes, automo- The Library of Congress has published a biles, trains, waterways, quiet fields and to- a In late November, a former security chief microfiche publication of Photographs by wering cities, previously commissioned by at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art pleaded the Wright Brothers. The 20-page publica- the ~i~T~~~~~~* ~~~~~i~~i~~as a gift for guilty to the bungled theft of three Claude tion, which commeorates the 75th anniver- the House Commitee on Interstate and Monet paintings valued at nearly $1 sary of the first flight by the Wright bro- Foreign Commerce, which occupied those mil1ion. thers on 17 December 1903, includes a quarters at the time. checklist of the photographs and five micro- Archeologists in El Salvador have unco- vered a 1,500-year-old May an farm house: Women Artists: A Selected Bibliography, vide legal Or legislative support/publications outbuilding and nearby cornfield that, like compiled by Joanne Roake is no. 19 in the for artists, a complete listing of art-related Pompeii, were buried and preserved in a Bibliographic Series published by the Libra- legislation and much, much more. If you do sudden fall of volcanic ash. ry, California State University, Sacramento, not find it in your local artists' space or California. The scope of the bibliography is bookstore, then write to WPA with a self- NEW TECHNOLOGY AND OLD international, including artists from 33 addressedJstamped legal-size manila enve- countries. lope. IBM is at work on a "continuous speech recognition project", meaning it can cope Paper and Leather Restoration: A Manual Fear of Filing: A Beginner's Handbook on with sentences 7 to 9 words long, drawn by Paul Mucci helps you prevent further Recordkeeping and Federal Taxes for from a vocabulary of 250 words. deterioration of your archival holdings. An Dancers, Other Performers, Writers, and introduction to the craft of materials resto- Visual Artists. This is the new third edition, Xerox has entered into "telecommuni- ration, it discusses causal factors such as expanded, revised, and keyed to the 1977 cations" with about 256,000 pieces of in- heat, light, pests, mold, fungus, and sulphur federal tax forms 55p. Volunteer Lawyers formation capable of transmission each dioxide. Solutions offered include past reci for the Arts, 36 W. 44th St., Suite 1110, second. . . probably to another computer. pes, R. Reed's Emulsion Leather Dressing, New York, NY 10036. $3.00 prepaid. and the use of long fiber Japanese tissue. Lexicon Corporation, a Miami-based elec- This is the first publication of the Marac MUST READING tronics firm, has created a computer which Archival Series of the Mid-Atlantic Regional translates via a computer converter that is Archives Conference. Contained in this SS- AIA Journal for December 1978 has an hand-held into Spanish, French, Italian, Ger- page booklet is useful information, although article on "The Architecture of Escapism: man and Portuguese and vice versa. The the print is terribly small. Order for $3.00 Disney World & Las Vegas" by John Pastier. screen first shows the original language and from Mary Boccaccio, Archives & Manu- then the selected foreign one. scripts, McKeldin Library, College Park, MD American Art Review for November had a 20742. Checks should be made payable to special issue on "Contemporary Realism." Fotonovel Publiations, a new company in Marac. paperback-book publishing, now does nove- Christian Science Monitor has a new series lizations of movies using dialogue in comic- A Style Manual for Citing Microform and on "Art Galleries in Profile." The first gal- strip balloons, a long European tradition, Nonprint Media by Eugene B. Fleischer is lery profiled was the Terry Dintenfass Gal- which is now taking off in the U.S. Interes- aimed at all librarians, authors, scholars who lery in New York City, surveyed in October. tingly enough, it costs five times as much to cite microforms and non-print media in pub- A second in the series profled cooperative print a fotonovel as it does an ordinary pa- lications. This 74-page paperback is desi'gned galleries in New York, such as A.I.R. per back, because the paper must be of to be a companion to established style ma- high quality and thick to prevent ink ab- nuals. Included are filmstrips, globes, charts, Flash Art for October-November 1978 (the sorption, while the process of converting motion pictures, sound recordings, realia largest European art magazine) features movie film to panels for -book printing and games. To order, send $4.50 to Order Fluxus, a historical and documentation requires a special process. Bantam Books is Dept., ALA, SO E. Huron St., Chicago, IL issue, dedicated to the memory of George also going to issue several "fotonovels." 60611. Maciunas-a very important issue, one not to be missed by anyone interested in the PUBLICATIONS AVAlLABtE Health and Safety in Printmaking is avail- Fluxus movement, the 60s, Happenings, and able for free from Alberta Labour, Occupa- everybody who made that happen. Access: Film and Video Equipment: An tional Health and Safety Division, Occupa- Annotated Bibliography is an NEA produc- tional Hygiene Branch, 2nd Floor, Oxbridge L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E for December 1978 tion, providing an extensive listing of orga- Place, 9820 - 106th St,, Edmonton, Alberta features a number of writers responding to nizations, distributors, workshops and T5K 256. three short selections from Gertrude Stein's training programs, and the equipment avail- Tender Buttons (1914), including Michael able of film and video outlets arranged in Open Chains: Selecred Annotated Bibliogra- Davidson, Larry Eigner, Bob Perleman, six geographical zones-Northeast, Mid- phy of Self-Publishing, edited by Robbie Steve McCaffery , Peter Seaton, Dick Atlantic, Southeast, South Central, North Fanning, includes advice to beginners and Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Andre, etc. Central and Western. Compiled and edited sources of information. About SO publica- Book reviews, essays, and excerpts from fu- by Nancy Legge in conjunction with the tions are suggested as an overview to pub- ture publications are included in this most Media Arts Program at the National Endow- lishing, business information, periodicals significant journal, which has just completed ment for the Arts, the 712-page soft-cover and continuing publications, personal ex- its first volume. One year (4 issues in 1979) book costs $2.00 and includes an index periences in self-publishing. 12 pages, $2.00 for $4.00; institutions $8.00 from Charles and a list of media publications and orga- (prepaid order only, California residents add Bernstein, 464 Amsterdam Ave., NYC 10024. nizations. Available from AFI, National 6% tax) to Fibar Designs, P.O. Box 2634, Education Services, J. F. Kennedy Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Washington, DC 20566. Lightworks Number 10 is out and includes Legislative Guide for Visual Artists (free features by Richard Kostelanetz, Stan Van- An Annotated Bibliography of Slide Library to artists) will be available on the 15th of DerBeek, Ray Johnson; photographs by Literature by Stanley W. Hess, Slide & February from the Washington Project for Antonio Mendoza, Robert Eckert, and Photographic Librarian at the Cleveland the Arts, 1227 G ST., N.W., Washington, Barry Roth; articles on Alternatives in Museum of Art, has been published by the DC 20005. This will be a 32-page infor- Music, and much, much more. A bargain School of Information Studies, Syracuse mation-packed book!et with such chapters at $2.00 or $10.00 for four issues from University, in its Bibliographic Studies s as A Capitol Hill Mini-Directory, the Legis- Lightworks, P.O. Box 7271, Ann Arbor, MI series. This is Number 3 and can be pur- lative Process, Comprehensive Listing of all 47107. chased from Syracuse University, 113 Eu- National Service Organizations that pro- clid Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210.