NEWS 6 NOTES facade were heavily damaged. Beginning this year, the Bell System Yellow L.lOOO oer issue. or $8.00 for three issues Terrorist groups on both the left and right Pages directories will include a new heading, (~.4000).write to Studioriga, Viale Abruz- sides claimed responsibility. "Arts Organizations and Information," zi 64,20131 Miiano. which should be a help to those active in the Graziano Origa calls himself "Punk Artist,' The ancient royal burial group in north cultural scene everywhere. in which there are many blue jeans and black skin. Afghanistan has yielded thousands of pieces of gold and jewelry that may rival the trea- GEORGE & MARTHA'S REVOLUTION Art InsightlSouthwest is the new name of sures of King Tutankhamun. Since digging in October, Russian archeologists have re- With Boston Athenaeum's need for money what was formerly Scuthwestern Art. With covered 20,000 pieces of gold jewelry, some to help keep this long-standing institution a broadened editorial scope and circulation weighing as much as two pounds. going and its desire to sell its two unfinished base, the new Ai will explore the art of li- portraits of Martha and George Washington ving with art. The first issue of Art Insight Police in MarseiUe, France reported the by Gilbert Stuart, the potential sale of the comes out in mid-May, published six times recovery of 12 stolen paintings valued at portraits to the National Portrait Gallery a year, offering a wider variety of articles $3.95 million and the arrest of eight per- created a ruckus. Since the portraits were on on a very art-aware Southwest. Write to sons in connection with the theft. Among loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, AI/Southwest, P.O. Box 1763, Austin, TX the paintings was Paul Gauguin's Portrait since 1876, the whole state of Massachusetts 78767. of Madeleine Bernard, valued at $2.3 mil- besides the city of Boston went up in arms. lion. The police would not identify the With the New York Times, the Christian Musicworks is now the leading New Music Science Monitor and other papers having a tabloid in Canada. Produced by musician- persons arrested or give any details of the heyday with this media feast, many solu- artists, it includes intervleqs, news and arrest. An insurance firm had offered tions were brought forth, including having many reviews of what is going on in Toron- $23,000 for information leading to re- the paintings sit in New York half-way be- to, Montreal and Vancouver. $5.00 for 6 covery of the paintings. tween Boston and the District of Columbia quarterly issues from 31) Saint Patrick St., RUBBER STAMP NEWS to solve the problem altogether. But now Toronto, Canada M5T 1V1. officials of the Smithsonian Institution and Fawcett's Rubber Stamps has a catalog for the Athenaeum have voluntarily suspended LOST AND FOUND ART sale. F3r 50 cents, you have a delectable negotiations until the end of the year for assortment of images which are unique, the proposed sale for $5 million. This was A 19th-century Czarist Russian painting, They also sell every image in their entire taken beacause a Boston fundraising cam- sent to the U.S. for the 1904 St. Louis stock unmounted at half price. We suggest paign has begun in an effort to match the World's Fair and thereafter remaining on you write to Fawcett's Rubber Stamps, $5 million the Smithsonian had offered. American soil, ended its 74-year odyssey in RR2, 720 Middle Turnpike, Stons, CT And everyone is in the act, including Mayor March. Foresr Fire by the Russian painter 06268. Kevin H. White of Boston and Senator Ed- A.K. Denisov-Ural'skiy, painted in 1897, ward M. Kennedy. was given to Ambassador Anatol F. Dobry- Karimbada is a new rubber stamp maga- nin by Joseph Duffey, chairman of the Na- zine published by Unhandeijara Lisboa. NEW PERIODICALS tional Endowment for the Humanities. The If you wish to be in Karimbada 3, you 6 x 10 foot oil depicts a Ural Mountain fo- must send 150 copies (16 x 21 cm.) num- Breathingspace, an international anthology rest aflame, and was donated to the NEH by bered, signed, and rubber stamped to Un- of sound-text and other extensions of poe- August Bush, Jr. It had been exhibited at handeijara Lisboa, Rua Senador Joao Lira try, is an "elder sister to Black Box." This the Busch Gardens amusement entertain- 777,58.000-Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil. is a handsomely packaged two-cassette tape ment complex in St. Louis, where it had set with participation by John Cage, Bliem caught the eye of Prof. Robert C. William, EDUCATION Kern, Henry Rasof, John Wellman and Washington University, who began an 8-year The Inter-Media program at Arizona State Annamarie Prins, Jackson MacLow, Beth quest to uncover the painting's background. University in Tempe provides an area for Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz, Philip Cor- His snooping led to its ownership and now those students who wish to use contempo- ner, Bruce Andrews, George Quash and its return to the Soviet Union. rary concepts and processes as the focal Charles Stein, Charlie Morrow, Tom John- The FBI returned to French authorities point of their studies. Designed for the . non-specialist, the program stresses an alter- son, and Annea Lockwood. The packaging in April a Rembrandt masterpiece stolen 8 native definition of theses based on a syn- gives it paperback appearance so it fits years ago, Le Rabbin, a 1655 portrait of a nicely on the shelf. The cover is a Humu- bearded rabbi. It had been stolen in 1971 thesis of communication, technology and ment print done in the manner of Tom Phi- from a museum in Bayonne, France, along personal imagery. The intent of Inter-Media lips, and the whole edition is edited by with three other paintings. It was recovered art is to integrate systems of art, or to inte- John Wellman. by undercover FBI agents who bought it grate art with non-art systems. The end re- The next issue of Breathingspace will be through a fencing opkration for $26,000 sult is the creation of new artistic possibili- edited in Los Angeles by Paul Vangelisti. two years ago. The painting is valued at ties that form a structure beyond its com- ponent parts. We are speaking of an art that Price is $9.95 from Watershed Tapes, P.O. $250,000. Box 4174, Washington, DC 20015. seeks to involve all the aspects of on-going * In April, a terrorist bomb seriously issues and structures into a different, more Punk Artist, produced by Studioriga, is a 'damaged the Palace of the Senators on the complete, holistic formulation; an art that professionally produced Punk tabloid from Capitoline Hi in Rome, destroying parts frees the artist to use whatever tools, mater- Milano, Italy,a cross between Andy Warhol's of the building designed by Michelangelo, ials, technologies, imageries-in whatever Interview, Stuff out of Los Angeles which which serves as Rome's city hall and a combinations and configurations-that will includes only advertisements, and People monument to the nation's cultural heritage. best serve his or her concept. magazine. The layout is super, the ads a trip Not only destroyed were the heavy wooden Can you imagine being able to major in in themselves, and the printing refined. We double door and the marble ledge over the Performance? Well, you can atASU. For recommend this magazine highly. $2.00 or portral, but marble reliefs that adorn the more information, write to Inter-Media Program, Art Dept., ASU, Tempe, AZ. MUSEUMS called Faces and will consist of 150 pain- 0 The Downtown Branch of the Whitney tings, etchings and sculptures. Plans are Museum recently showed "Enclosure and Corcoran Art Gallery has been given $1.15 to build a new wing designed by I.M. Pei Concealment", an exhibition of construc- million by the Armand Hammer Foundation and a climatecontroUed system for the tions by Christo, Joseph Cornell, Lucas Sa- allowing the private museum to open its entire museum to protect its collection of maras and H.C. Westermann More than 30 doors free to the public for the first time in Greek, Roman, Old Egyptian, Impressionist, works from the mid-forties to the present its 110-year history. and 19th century art, besides Asiatic works. were included. a A strike shut the museums and galleries in IB The Pablo Picasso Museum in Barcelona a The New Museum is showing an exhibi- Paris, including the Louvre, during the Eas- has attracted crowds with as many as 1,900 tion of paintings, drawings and sculpture ter week. The staffs of the state-owned mu- persons a day Tiling in to see the 58 works called Sustained Visions by Gaylen C, Han- seums and monuments stopped work to sup- dedicated to Pablo Picasso including water- sen, Claire Moore and Salvatore Scarpitta. port demands for better pay and conditions. colors, etchings, collages and drawings from three different periods of the artist's life, The Vancouver Art Gallery is participating 0 The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired but all on the theme of sex. There are bro- in Satellite Broadcasts from 20 April t Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue thel scenes, bedroom scenes, comic collages through 21 May. The Pacific Rim Identity is by Piet Mondrian, done in 1922. of magazine pinups and graphic sexual po- a project conceived and coordinated by Bill ses. The erotic works are being shown for Bartlett, former director of the Open Space 0 The Whitney Museum of American Art the first time by the museum, which had Gallery in Vancouver. A NASA satellite is has just contracted with New York City kept many of them hidden for fear of offen- the vehicle by which Pacific Rim countries to take over the abandoned First Precinct ding the censors and outraging the public. such as Canada, U.S., New Zeafand, Austra- police station on Old Slip in the South lia, Fiji, and the Cook Islands are visually Street Seaport area. The four-story building, The Getty Museum has been the cover communicating with each other during a equipped with tiny jait cells, will be recycled story in the 3 1 March issue of Saturday Re- month-long series of slow-scan broadcasting with the top two floors used as studio space view, alleging California's most celebrated originating from Videospace at the Vancou- for the Whitney's independent-study pro- new art treasure may have been smuggled ver Art Gallery. gram, an artist and art-historian training out of Italy, but the story has been denied The public has been invited to participate project quartered now in the basement of a by the director of the Museum, Stephen in the broadcasts each Thursday and Friday. Lower Manhattan bank. The ground floor Garrett, who issued a statement asserting Special Student Workshop sessions have also wilI be used as a performance and exhibition that the fourth-century Creek original been organized in which local school chi& area, with space for a kid of info center on bronze was "purchased through legal chan- dren will communicate with students from downtown cultural affairs. The second nels and has clear title." the Pacific Rim countries. floor will be shared with Creative Time Inc. (which sponsors artists' work in alternate The Museum of Contemporary Crafts has The Metropolitan Museum of Art has spaces) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural changed its name to the American Craft installed a series of new paintings by Ells- Council. Museum and has organized "New Handmade worth Kelly, a se~iesof wall paintings some Furniture" as its premiere exhibition in its made of flat sheets of steel, others painted. TheMuseum of the City of New York has new location at 44 West 53rd St., New York a new photo gallery, which contains 130 City, which will be followed by a two-year 0 The Morgan Library in New York has an years of city history in 200 black and white U.S. and Canadian tour. There is a 48-page outstanding exhibition called Michelangelo photographs from the permanent collection, illustrated catalog. and his World: With Drawings from the including two daguerreotypes. Some of the British Museum, which proves to be the photos are by Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbott, m The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center of highlight show of the season thus far, and Byron (family firm of society photogra- the New York University will be showing on view through 28 July with about 44 phers). Life: The First Decade, a major exhibition drawings, books and manuscripts of con- of photographs from the archives of Life temporaries and followers. Greenville County Art Museum in North Magazine, showing 200 black and white Carolina is the recipient of an extensive col- prints from 70 photographs and more than 9 The Phillips Collections and the Smith- lection of Andrew Wyeth paintings owned 20 official agencies. 31 May - 3 August. sonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Ser- by Joseph E, Levine, the motion-picture vice (SITES), have collaborated on a major executive. The collection was bought by a The Hirshhorn Museum will be showing landmark exhibition and catalog, The Phil- retired local manufacturer, Arthur Magill, at Directions from 14 June through 3 Septem- lips Collection in the Making, 1920-1930, a cost between $4 and $4.5 million, consis- ber. This exhibition includes paintings, which opened in early May and will travel to ting of 26 works. The Greenville Museum, dr~ggs,sculptures, mixed-media works, a nine museums. There are 37 paintings and established in 1963 and situated in a town site-oriented project and two video pieces- watercolors, demonstrating outstanding that calls itself "the textile center of the 58 works in alI-by 18 American artists. The work in the context of seminal paintings world," is financed in part by county tax works will be grouped into five sections, from earlier periods including Milton Avery, revenues. It built a spacious building five each focussing on a "direction" within Bonnard, Demuth, Homer, Hopper, Luks, years ago. They have shown Wyeth family American art today as a reflection of the Marin, Picasso, Rousseau, Sisley, Tack and shows in the past two years. diverse interests of contemporary artists. Vuillard, among others. Brute Sculpture, Imitations, Eclectic Sur- 0 The Museum of Fine Arts of Boston will faces, Fictions, and Shrines will be xepresen- COPY ART EXHIBITS open a branch at the Faneuil Hall Market- ted by Eleanor Antin, Jud Nelson, Peter place on Boston's waterfront this spring. Saari, Donald Evans, Roland Reiss, Kim Several copy art shows have been held The museum wiU occupy 12,000 square MacConnel, Barbara Rossi, Loren Madsen, throughout the U.S., including a recent one feet of the upper story of the South Market George Kuehn, Kenneth Price, Donna Den- in Honolulu, In Los Angeles, Huggins/ Building of the shopping center, which was nis and others. Holmes showed 20 artists in a varied, well- built in 1826. The first exhibition will be balanced and exploratory show, showing the diverse directions taken by various artists director of Sign of the Times. The first ARCHITECTURE with the color Xerox machine. From pos- exhibition of art by artists working/running tage stamps to soft postcards, from place- art spaces in D.C. will be a must-see show. A recent article in the New York Times mats to transfer monoprints, the variety MOTA is now publishing a new news- discusses Richard Haas' Francis 1 radiator, was amazing. For more information, write paper, Art Ink, a creation of Janet Sch- an interior wall painting inspired by the or- Huggins/Holmes, 420 112 Larchmont Blvd., muckal, coordinating director of MOTA, nate facade of a landmark building in New Studio 1, Los Angeles, CA 90004. and Peter Pocock, Editor. The ww edition York at 7th avenue near Central Park, built of MOTA Magazine, edited by Eric Balzer, in 1909. Nancy and Michael Blackwood Eastman House has received a $75,000 will be out in August. commissioned the work in their apartment grant from Xerox Corporation to support in the Alwyn Court. a project that includes a major traveling exhi- A SPACE in Toronto has moved to 299 bition of artists' work using office copying Queen Street West, which includes 1500 Six of the 15 AIA Citations for 1979 equipment. The project, called Electroworks, square feet of office space and a small were designed by Boston area firms. Hugh will premiere 9 November at the Rochester exhibition area. They continue to hold Stubbins and Associates won for the Citi- museum. Included is rhe publication of the programs throughout the city, including corp Center, a 46-story office building in first definitive book on the artistic exten- Satellite Programmes in Music and Film New York City. Only one winner is loca- sions of copy machine technology. Marilyn and now the Queen Street location will ted outside of the U.S.:The Joan Miro McCray is director of the project. Dates for allow for video screenings, the writing Foundation Museum in Barcelona, designed the Rochester exhibition are 9 November - program, small visual arts exhibitions, by Sert, Jackson and Associates from Cam- March 1980. A symposium on the impact of meetings and perhaps some music. bridge, MA. The St. Louis Art Museum, the duplicating machines on the art of the Peggy Gale is the new Director. Chicago Public Library & Cultural Center, 1970s will be at the Eastman House on 10 the Center for American Arts at Yale Uni- and 11 November. ART AND GOVERNMENT versity were some of the winners. In addi- The book will be published by Chanti- tion, the AIA will bestow its 25-Year Award cleer Press. Congressman Fred Richmond produced a in Kansas City in June on the Yale Univer- Special Report on the Arts in January which sity Gallery in New Haven, designed in 1954 ARTISTS' SPACES not only summarizes the 95th Congress and by the late Louis I. Kahn. its actions, but also tells how to contact Western Front always has a full program. your U.S. Representative, how to raise fe- Theoffice of Charles & Ray Eames, the Some of the more intqesting events that deral arts dollars, a glossary of federal terms American design partnership, has been have occurred are Computer Mail Networ- and who gives money for the arts from gov- awarded this year's Royal Gold Medal for king on 1 April where Western Front coop- ernment agencies. Write to Cong. Fred Architecture. Queen Elizabeth I1 has given erated with twenty-two centers and indivi- Richmond, 1707 Longworth Bldg., Washing- her consent for the medal, which is recog- duals from Australia, North America, Blj- ton, DC 20515. nized as the premiere international award. tain and Europe to participate in dialogue on the use oi "electronic mail" and "inter- In late April the Assembly Ways and Means Architecture in China is impractical, active computer communications." Western Subcommittee on State Administration ten- overly concerned with grandeur and still Front was on lime with other centers in tatively approved an appropriation of $9.4 too influenced by the heavy Stalinist style, Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, San Fran- million for fiscal 1979-80 state arts budget according to a recent charge in The Peking cisco, Houston, New York, and Vienna; a for the State of California. This is the first Daily. The tendency to design tall steps, concert by Pauline Oliveros; a film and talk step toward gaining approval of a substantial large entranceways and huge lobbies in pub- about three Canadian artists' magazines by budget in June, with a per capita appropri- lic buildings went back to imperial times, editors Isaac Applebaum and Ben Holz- ation closer to 45 cents rather than 6.3 when architecture was reflective of official berg; Amy Greenfield talking about video cents per capita in fiscal 1978. rank. Another obstacle in the growth and and hologams and showing them, plus a development of architecture is that officials whole series of Electroacoustic Music. Wes- FLUXUS ARCHIVE of the Communist Party approve final de- tern Front is at 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver, sign of a building rather than an architect. B.C., Canada. The Dartmouth College Museum and Gal- - These comments are highly unusual because lenes announced this winter the founding architecture has not even been discussed in MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), 1206 of the George Maciunas Memorial Collec- the press in recent years. G St., Washington, DC 20005 reports that tion, which will consist of works and docu- its 36 Hours curated by Walter Hopps was mentation donated (and loaned) in honor .Architects in the Schools is a NEA-suppor- an amazing success, creating a sense of com- of the founding father of that international ted program, started three years ago. Thus munity among Washington artists and sho- art movement of the '60s. Since Fluxus far, 50 architects are teaching in 28 states, wing the wide range of artistic media and artists deliberately created new media in and 12 more states have applied for funds visual statements. The general mood seemed visual, creative and performing arts, the for next year, to be of patience, politeness and a feeling collection consists of a wide range of ma- that all were contributing to a surprisingly terials: verbal music scores, electronic moni- The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 20 good quality exhibition. tors and sound producers, posters, poetry, million Ismaili Moslems, have given $11.5 MOTA is also planning an exhibition of photographs, and printed ephemera. Jan million to Hanard University and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for "Artists in Artspaces" for a mid-June van der Marck, director of the Dartmouth opening. Included will be art works by A1 museum facilities and an early observer of the study of Islamic architecture. The pro- Nodal (WPA director); Vernard Gray, direc- the Fluxus movement, coordinated the ject is called The Aga Khan Program for tor of the Miya Gallery; Val Lewton, Presi- announcement with a Fluxus exhibition and Islamic Architecture. The program will sup- dent of the Studio Gallery (a coop gallery); concert at the Hanover campus. Future tra- port four professorial positions, a small fel- Bill Warre11 of D.C. Space; Anne Wood, gra- veling exhibitions of items in the collection lowship program and enlarged Islamic archi- phis consultant at MOTA; Jimmy Greggs, are planned. tectural coUections at the two schools' libra- ries as well as other special projects. WOMEN region, has recently moved to a new facility seum evidently used a sharp instrument to at the Philadelphia College of Art. The Cen- cut through and scratch about 25 paintings Rose Victor, painter, recently had an exhibi- ter specializes in conservation of drawings but the damage has been slight. Several tion in New York called Women Above the watercolors, prints, manuscripts, docu- scratches were found on the varnish of Mark, including paintings of Bella Abzug, ments, maps, and other materials of his- Renoir's Dog, and a one-inch incision was Sarah Caldwell, Bette Davis, Betty Friedan, torical and archival value. Information made in Rothko's Orange and Tan. Martha Graham, Lillian Hellman, Margaret should be directed to Mrs. George C. Axil- Mead, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Nevelson, bund, 612 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA More than 70 lithographs and other Beverly Sills, Barbara Walters, and Dr. Rosa- 19106. works of art purchased by the Port Autho- lyn Yalow, among others. The show was at rity of New York and New Jersey for dis- the Parsons School of Design. 9 Conservation Materials, Ltd, has issued play in its World Trade Center suites and its first Catalog which is designed to be other facilities have "disappeared without Germaine Greer's new book in the fall, a binder system in order to interleaf new notice" since 1969. A file listing the art to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, items, etc. Tools, chemicals, brushes, ad- purchases has also disappeared. Lithographs will be The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of hesives, etc, are offered. Write to 340 included some popular works by Dali, Women Painters and their Work. The au- Freeport Blvd., Box 2884, Sparks, NV Calder and Shahn. thor, according to the New York Times, has 89431. spent the last 7 years searching the cellars JAPAN AND THE ARTS and attics of museums for neglected art by THEFTS & FORGERIES It has appeared that Japanese read more women. Some discoveries will be revealed than a billion comic books a year, not just and some reflections on the humiliations of Recently a still life by Picasso was stolen by children, but hundreds of millions are sexual innuendo and "the effects of female from a museum in Ixelles, Belgium by a read by adults too. More than 100 comics submissiveness and erotic entanglement with thief who attempted to substitute a crude are published for adults every month. adored male masters" will be explored. copy for the work by the Spanish master. A museum guard noticed that the gouache 8 May is Japanese Art Month throughout CONSERVATION painting, measuring 8 1/2 x 9 inches, had the U.S., but Japan Today is also being been replaced. The painting, dating from Restoring Leonardo's Last Supper fresco is celebrated by the Japanese government w June 1920,was estimated to be worth about expected to cost $1.2 million. It will pro- which is going to contribute gifts of $1 mil- $66;000. bably take two years to restore the fresco's lion each to four American cultural and colors, which will be protected by installa- academic institutions. The Freer Gallery of 9 Four tapestries from the 16th and 17th tion of air fdtering equipment, construction Art in Washington will help construct the centuries, from Gobelin, Aubusson and a of a steel cover for the roof and changes in new $13 million Oriental art gallery annex; Flemish Gothic, were stolen in April from the walls. the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New the walls of St. Thomas Episcopal Church York will help underwrite most of the esti- on Fifth Avenue at 53rd St. Thieves entered The vacuum chamber used to test the mated $1.7 million cost of adding exhibi- the church during the night after prying moon rover used by American astronauts is tion space for about 20,000 works of Japa- open a stained-glass window. The theft was being used to restore 40,000 books damaged nese art owned by the museum; the grant worth more than $100,000. in a flood at Stanford University's Meyer to MIT is to establish a fund for intema- tional energy policy research; and $1 million Library last 4 November. Engineers at Paul Petrides, an authority on Utrillo Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunny- to the Asian Society will help the society paintings and a leading gallery owner in build a new Headquarters building. vale and Stanford Library Director David Paris, was sentenced to three years in pri- Weber said 5,000 books a week will be son and fined more than $500,000 after he PUBLICATIONS placed in the chamber. Air will be sucked was conficted of dealing in stolen paintings. out until the near vacuum found 200,000 Petrides, a 78-year-old millionaire who has feet above the earth's surface is reached. The founding of one of the world's great been a central figure in the Paris art estab- art libraries is described by Katharine Mc- The books have been frozen in a cold lishment since before WWII, was arrested storage locker since the flood. In the va- Cook Knox in The Story of the Frick Art after buying and reselling six paintings Reference Library: The Early Years, pub- cuum chamber they are being heated and that had been stolen from the Paris home as they thaw the vacuum effect draws the lished by the Frick Art Reference Library of Albert Lespinasse, an industralist, in in 1979. The 149-page volume is available water from the pages and bindmgs. Weber 1972. said he hopes to have the books back on for $15.00 from the Frick Art Reference the shelves by September. Library, 10 East 71st St., New York, NY Three men were arrested on Long Island 10021 ($15.50 by mail, payable in advance) in New York State in a scheme involving the 9 Archivists and librarians searching for an alleged forgery and sale of 200 lithographs acid-free envelope-and photographers too- 9 Art Index Cards are designed to help attributed to Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Al- solve the problem if you ever have lost a should write to Photofde, 2000 Lewis Ave., exander Calder and Salvador Dali. The value Lion, IL 60009, which has produced chemi- painting. It is a 5 x 8 inche card system of the authentic prints was estimated by which allows you to include a slide of the cally purified wood fibre envelopes with a experts at more than $3 million. The Galerie slightly alkaline pH. Available in ivory, work. Free sample available, from Art Maeght's Manhattan office helped determine Index Cards, 172 E. 90th St., New York, the envelopes come with or without flaps in the authenticity of the counterfeit prints. a variety of manuscript and: photo negative NY 10028. sizes. Free samples and a descriptive brochure Several paintings have been damaged at can be had by writing the company. The Art of Multi-Image, edited by Roger the National Gallery of Art in Washington L. Gordon, gathers together articles by The Conservation Center for Art and His- by "some obviously deranged person who various advocates of this audiovisual toric Artifacts, a nonprofit corporation ser- is here after hours," said the museum's medium to address the history, tech- ving cultural institutions in the mid-Atlantic director, J. Carter Brown, in March. He niques, production, utilization, and evalu- ation of multi-image. Iilustrations, sources temperature, in their raw form, liquid removed from the "Lives" show, because of information: and a bibliography complete crystals dry out and deteriorate quickly. his work dealt with Distillers and Thalido- this publication of the Association for But they can be dispersed in water and mide, the drug given pregnant women, Multi-Image, for $17.50 from Assoc. for be used like conventional paint pigments. which created deformed children. What Educational Communications and Techno- At $250 a quart, liquidcrystal paint a sorry plight that narrow political logy, 1126 16th St., N.W. Washington, seems unlikely to come into common preoccupations affect the judgment of DC 20036. artistic use soon, but "it has a future." government (this time the British) on the arts. Powerhouse is a booklet describing the PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS gallery, is aims, structure, and history. T Jay Lee Jaroslav, an artist and teacher gallery, its aims, structure, and history. The Edward Steichen's negatives and prints at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was women artists' co-op in Montreal offers will be given to the International Museum arrested by FBI agents on 21 December this booklet free, if you write to Power- of Photography at George Eastman House, 1972 on charges that he wilfully violated house Gallery, 3738 St. Dominique, Montre- and not to MOMA where Steichen was Title 18, Section 1342, of the U.S. Code. al, P.Q., Canada. director of the department of photography What Jaroslav did was to assemble 31 for 15 years. The choice was made by fictitious identities over a period of al- ARTISTS/PRINTS is an invaluable source Joanna T. Steichen, the photographer's most four years, in the form of birth cer- book for galleries, collectors, curators and 46-year-old wife and executor of his estate, tificates, Social Security cards, driver's art librarians, documenting over 800 com because the Rochester institution was licenses and passports. For each of the pletely annotated editions. AU entries "entirely a photog~aphicmuseum-photo- deceased persons whose identity he are listed alphabetically by artist, with g raphy is not treated as a stepchild there." assumed, Jaroslav cast an astrological complete bibliographical information. Eastman House will have fust pick of the chart. An analysis of the horoscope, dong There is also a glossary, a lexicon in English, negatives and prints, acting as the agent in with factual information about the indi- German and French and indexes to publ- the disbursal of the remainder of the collec- vidual obtained from the original birth lishers and workshops. 150 illustrations tion to museums and universities around the record, enabled the artist to construct a complete this handsome volume available world, as cited in the terms of Steichen's believable biography, a "legend", so to for $19.95 pre-publication price (plus will. The IMP will transfer to safety film ne- speak, for each of his 31 identities. Later, $2.25 for postage and handling) from gatives on combustible nitrate stock. by means of self-hypnosis, he attempted Artists/Prints, 708 No. Manhattan Place, to internalize these biographies, and iden- Los Angeles, CA 90038. The Friends of Photography announces its tify with each. Jaroslav anticipated his Asilomar Workshop 10-15 July with Peter own arrest for possession of his "extended" MUSIC Bunnell, Jack Welpott, Don Owens and credentials, but was careful to make no Robert Routh. Write to P.O. Box 239, Car- illegal use of them, intending to base his Tomato Records has finally issued mel, California for more information. defense on the argument that art, and not Einstein on the Beach in a four-record criminal motive was behind his activities. album, with music by Robert Wilson and The Festival d'Arles in its 10th edition Jaroslav's work eventually brought his Phil Glass. The original score has been will be from 2 - 27 July, with the main own credentials as an artist and teacher cut from 270 minutes to 163 minutes by events occurring during the 7 - 13 July. into play, by appearing at his trial as his curtailing some of the repetitions and Honor guests are Manuel Alvarez Bravo, own "expert witness", to testify that what by using somewhat quicker tempos here Aaron Siskind and Henri Cartier-Bresson. he did constitutes a work of art, and not an and there. act of fraud. The ensuing legal battle was r-' m Photo Communique, published by Gail not as clea~cutat that, but his piece, en- TECHNOLOGY Fisher-Taylor, photographer, writer and titled Extended Credentials, remains the columnist, has come out as a new bimonthly most powerful test of the meaning of A Canadian physicist has discovered a way newsletter for the tine art pnotograpny bureaucratic identity that any artist has in which artists can reproduce the shim- community in Canada. The first issue yet undertaken. mering irridescence of a butterfly's wing or features a piece on the characteristics of Now Jaroslav has translated 29 of his a beetle's shell, an effect beyond the reach Canadian photogaphy by Carol Marino, original documents into paintings. Each of of any conventional paint. David M. Makow, a list of new Museum acquisitions and the paintings is a copy of an application for a Polish-born physicist with the National "Double vision: The Stereo Views of a birth certificate, magnified to 5 x 6 feet. Reearch Council of Canada in Ottawa, is James Esson." Available from Fine Art He now exhibits these works in DOMUS also a serious amateur painter and sculp- Photography Publications Ltd., P.O. Box for March 1979, since the artist was given tor, whose liquid-crystal creations glow 129, Station M, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 years in federal prison reduced to the with deep, shifting colors ordinarily found M6S 4T2. prohibition to exhibit or to publicize the only in certain birds, fish, insects and sea- Extended Credentials for five years. And shells. LAST MINUTE ARTISTS' NEWS now the five years are over, and Jaroslav 1 lives in Milano, Italy. Liquid crystals are a kind of cross between Tony Rickaby, censored from the exhibi- the chaos of a true liquid, in which mole- tion called Lives, which was moved from ART READER cules move freely with no fvted relationship the Serpentine Gallery to the Hayward, among themselves, whereas a solid crystal brought some of his work to C Space in Arts Magazine for March dedicated to Jack- consists of an arrangement of molecules New York City to show it there. All son Pollock. . .American Artist for March fixed by an orderly lattice system. Rickaby did was make a series of includes Annual Directory of Art Schools The apparent color of the liquid crystal drawings that show the facades of buildings and Workshops. . . Art Voices South for depends on the angle of the light striking occupied by right wing organizations. Sept.-Oct. 1978 features Blue Sky, an artist them and on the observer's position. The He called the show "Fascade" in New York. who makes commissioned murals and also colors relfected by liquid crystals are also In addition, Conrad Atkinson was also initiates mail art shows. . . Atlanta Art Wor- , strongly affected by very small changes in kers Coalition Newspaper gets better and May/June issue includes a list of Limited better. . . ArtNews for March was dedicated Edition Portfolios currently available. . to Prints and in April to Photography. . . Parachute for Spring 1979 includes an Black Art , vol. 3, no. I features an inter- article on Laurie Anderson, Peggy Gale's view with Betye Saar by Houston Conwil. . . review of the Clive Robertson/Joseph The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Lon- Cres for January 1979 featured a fold-out Beuys admixture on video, an interview don organized a conference on The Arts and offset print by Mertens called A Pleasant with Fabio Mauri, an important article on the Common Market, held the weekend of Pattern, with rows of smiling faces; for problems of criticism of Performance. . . 11 May. The intention of the conference March there was a portfolio of photographs Rubber for March 1979 features a project was to assist people in becoming more aware by Hugo Boxhoorn-available for $6.00 by Qaudio Boulart, who sent a box of of how the arts in Britain are, or could be, from CRES Publishers, Laurierstraat 188, stamps to artists throughout the world, with affected by Community action-or lack of Amsterdam.. . Damus now has "Forum the idea that it be returned to Amsterdam action. . . especially on how the arts can be di Pierre Restany" which presents art, its by 15 March. The exhibition featured the affected by regulations designed by the problems and answers through a "forum" work of those artists who returned the Community for matters seemingly quite un- of major or marginal, central or eccentric stamps. . . Sun & Moon, a Journal of related to the arts-such as transportation. figures . . . Du for February has a whole Literature and Art for Winter 1978-9 is Another important area is obviously the dedicated to fiction and narrative with con- exploration of Chairs. . . Ephemera no. possible conflict of concepts such as "free- tributions from Dick Higgins, Lucy Lippard, 10 has a Special Langwe Jart Issue with dom of movement"and "the closed shop". Anna Banana and Dadaland. . . History Ray DiPalma, Eleanor Antin, and others. . . of Photography: An International Quar- Salon no. 6 is an anthology of the first five Old Master Paintings from the Collection terly distributed by Light Impressions issues plus a contribution by every artist of Baron Thyssen-Bournemisza will begin a is a lucid, scholarly journal with impor- previously published in Salon. The mag two-year tour of America next November at tant articles and book reviews ($24.00 appears in "Salon Presents", an exhibition the National Gallery in Washington. Works per annum). . .High Performance no. 5 in the Museum Folkwang Essen in West Ger- selected by John Walker, director emertius features a special section on Chris Bur- many. $17.00 for three issues from Salon, of the National Gallery, from the collection den, an interview with Gina Pane, Anna -KrahesgLZLD 4000 Dusseldorf 1. .. The of the 48-year-old naturalized Swiss citizen Banana/Dadaland's European Tour, and Tamarind Papers for Spring 1979 include who is heir to the Thyssen mining, manu- T. R. Uthco's Edited by Fire.. . Impres- "Xerographic Transfers" by Toby Michel facturing and banking dynasty of Germany, sions for Spring 1979 is dedicated to (transferring on to stone). . . Vanguard as are permanently housed in Villa Favorita in Philography, a deeply philosophical previously announced is now a full-fledged Lugano, Switzerland. Works include Duccio, photographical study on habituation. . . magazine that includes an interview with Memling and Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Impulse has published its first editions ByeNauman, a review of Garry Kennedy, Goya, Canaletto, Guardi, Zurburan, etc. The which are included in the subscription book reviews, etc. . . View, for January, tour includes aIl major cities of the U.S., prices: Michael Snow's High School and has an interview with Chris Burden by except Chicago. SpiraIinglJFM 232, a travelogue-two beauti- Robin White. Published by Point Publica- beautiful additions to a superb magazine tions, 1555 San Pablo Ave. ,Oakland, CA Britain will stage the biggest exhibition from Canada. . Kaldron 8 is an anthology . for $10.00 for 10 issues. Whitewalls of Japanese art outside Japan in London in of visual poetry from all over the world, . . no. 2 for Winter-Spring 1979 includes 1981 covering the whole social spectrum of plus reviews of visual texts and news. , . work by Richard Prince, Rosemary Mayer, the Edo period-from the early 17th cen- free from Kaldron, 441 North 6th St., Vernon Fisher, John Giorno, John M. tury to 1868-through painting, porcelain, Grover City, CA 93433 except the price Bennett and Lucio Pozzi.$S.OO per year pottery, lacquer, textiles, carving, and sculp- of postage (28 cents for the U.S.). . . ture. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E for March 1979 from Whitewalls, Box 8204, Chicago, IL 60680. Wet. Magazine for MaylJune . . The Russians are lending Leonardo's features an excerpt from Steve McCafferyYs features Eat Me Architecture, food fetishism Madonna with Flower from the Hermitage essays in Sound Poetry: A Catalogue and and the whole experience of eating. Now Collection in Leningrad to be shown at the an article on Ruscha's Books and Seriality. .. $1.50 at your newsstand. . . and last but Luna Park's latest issue features Cahiers National Gallery and later in New York, as not least. . Intermedia, whose most . well as in Los Angeles and Detroit. This is du Grif: Gertrude Stein with articles by recent issue, number 6, is packed in a box included in the exhibition entitled From Matisse, Picasso,Cezanne, etc. Available and contains a variety of visual and written Leonardo to Titian, which was arranged from Transedition, rue Paul-Emile Janson material by artists and writers from around by Armand Hammer. 21, 1050 Bruxelles. . . The New Yorker the world. Number 5 was an "Entropy" for February 5 , 1979 included a satire issue-a tabloid-sized magazine in which The room commissioned by Georges Pom- on art criticism by Woody Allen. . . OR 16 each of the pages functions as a full-sized pidou for the Elysee Palace from the Israeli has eraser-prints by George Brett I11 and pull-out poster. Available for four issues artist, Yaacov Agam, has been moved with OR 17 is a large-size edition with works by for $5.00 (institutions add $3.00) from P.O. great trouble and expense from the ground Cavellini, Anna Banana and Dadaland, Box 31-464, San Francisco, CA 94131. Angelika Schmidt, Steve Durland, Steve floor of the early 18th-century presidential Hitchcock, Buster Cleveland, John Held palace to the fourth floor of the contempo- Jr., Klaus Groh, Mr. Cuttlefish, Michael rary late-20th century Centre Pompidou. Mollett, and lots lots more. . . this is a According to Agam, it is "the plastic expres- beautiful mag from Box 441, Sunderland, sion of Einstein's space-time continuum." The three walls lined with oblique painted MA 01375. . , OK Magazine for Spring 1979 is out and costs $3.00 from Nihilist slats and the fourth with colored glass doors Press, 10350 112 Wishire, Los Angeles, CA that filter and tint light in varying mixes 90024 . . . Print Letter for MarchlApril represents the essence of Agam's approach. includes two more opinions about color There is also in Paris at La Defense skyscra- by Irwin Dermer and Scott Hyde and the per complex a huge fountain by Agam com- bining the play of water, light and music.