NEWS G, NOTES PERIODICALS - DEAD AND ALIVE lendar of exhibitions, workshops, lectures, P.S. Primary Sources on the International etc. Also trying to support a comprehensive Performing Arts is a new periodical out of Fotogafia Italiana has ceased publication library of photo-related information which England in oversize tabloid format on book after more than 21 years in business, under is generated by exchange of publications. paper. The first issue was largely England- the editorship of Lanfranco Colombo. Available from the PRC, 25 Buick St., BOS- based with contributions on Video & Per- ton, MA 02215. formance, an interview with Joseph Beuys, Cover has changed its name to Artcover and a remarkable critique of Roselee Gold- with its November issue. The Agent, first issued in July 1979, incor- berg's book on Performance (Abrams). porates Invisible Art, Relevant Material and The second issue includes an interview Centerfold changes its name to Fuse in De- the New Agency Sheets in London. It is a with a self-managed beat group called Scritti cember, with a glossier look, more graphic participatory magazine where all are invited Politti, excerpts from a new book to be pub- detail, and the same fusion of cultural ideas to contribute words, pictures, money. Re- lished in January by Jeff Nuttall called Per- and views as Centerfold. Just a change in quest is to send what you think is worthy to formance Art:Memoirs (Vol. 1) and Scripts the look and in the name. help pay for the next one, or send some- (Vol. 2), reviews of performances largely in thing else in exchange. Write to New Agen- England of international groups. Editors are Image-a quarterly to come our in 1980, is cy, 46 Denbigh St., London SW1. Lists ad- Roger Ely and Allan V. Harrison, published to be a magazine about the readers' photo- dresses of participants, other addresses too. by Artstra Information Ltd., 146 Dawes Rd. graphy and to provide a showcase for work. London SW6. $20.00 aimail subscription 25 contests per issue and winners will re- Drawing, published by the Drawing Society per year for the U.S. and Canada. ceive cash prices. Articles on the art of pho- and first issued in May-June 1979, is edited tography and photography as a profession by Paul Cummings. Looking very much like CONSERVATtON & PRESERVATION will be included. Write to Image, 342 Madi- the Print Collectors' Newsletter, it has scho- son Ave., New York, NY 10017. larly articles, as well as interviews. . The Prado Museum which for 160 years Devoted to drawings of all cultures, styles has housed some of the finest paintings American Arts is the new name of ACA Re- and periods, Drawing also includes exhibi- in the world is installing a $15 million ports, the bimonthly publication of the tion reviews, book reviews, dealers' and mu- air-conditioning and security system to American Council for the Arts. It looks seums' catalog reviews, auction previews and protect the museum from the ravages of slick, a bit like New York magazine-but in reviews, as well as news and information. pollution and the threat of art thieves. black and white. Yet it still serves as a Available by mail and through membership forum for the exchange of ideas and the in the Society for $25.00 for individuals and "Ubatuba", the gray-green granite sculp- discussion of arts policies, trends and prob- $75.00 for institutions. A fine addition to ture which was shattered outside the Wein- lems in the field-a resource for information any collection dealing with drawings. traub Gallery in New York City, has recent- on the arts and arts administration, and an ly been restored and placed in its original advocate for the arts. Book reviews, news, Art Criticism, vol. 1, no. 1 , Spring 1979. location. The restoration cost $4,000. advocacy articles all make this an exciting Quarterly co-edited by Lawrence Alloway new turn for this publication available as and Donald Kuspit. Critical essays on Phi- An instructive and persuasive brochure part of membership of the ACA, or sepa- llip Pearlstein, Thomas Hess, church com- has been published by the Public Archives rately for $27.00 (including ACA UPDATE) missions, and a survey of criticism by Kus- of Canada. It instructs users on proper hand- from ACA, 570 Seventh Ave,, New York, pit, Sandler and Lawrence Alloway. Sub- ling of archive and library materials. To ob- NY 10018. scriptions $10.00 a year from Dept. of Art, tain a copy, write to Information Services SUNY at Stony Brook, Long Island, New Division, Public Archives of Canada, 395 AGAR (Avant Garde Art Review) in the York 11794. Long overdue. Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario KIA ON3, form of a one-page art magazine "intended The United Nations Educational, Scienti- to add the areas of prediction, speculation, Rare 19th Century American Art Journals, fic, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and suggestion to existing art commentary. edited by Donald Anderle, now appear in has issued a preliminary "World Heritage Its content consists of specific predictions, microfiche-11 journals are now in com- List" which includes 12 cultural and natural speculations, or suggestions in the form of plete runs such as The Art Journal, Illus- sites such as Quito and the Galapagos Island art reviews of art-works, techniques, or ma- trated Magazine of Art, The Art Collector, in Ecuador, Aachen Cathedral in West Ger- terials, which may exist in the near future." Brush and Pencil, The Magazine of Art, etc. m&y, Mesa Verde National Park, etc. Free, either at outlets such as Franklin Available for the first time from Earl M. Furnace, Printed Matter, and Artworks, or Coleman Publishers, P.O. Box 143, Pine CANADIAN ART SCENE by mail. Published by Steve S'soreff, Plains, NY 12567. Price dictates library 79 Mercer St., New York, NY 10013. purchase only, since it is expensive. The Centre for Art Tapes is located at 1671 Argyle St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Views: A New England Journal of Photo- ADIX is a new periodical out of New York B3J 2B5 and exhibits and distributes video graphy was first issued in May by the Pho- City, with the arts in mind, such as poetry, and audio tapes by artists. tographic-Resource Center in Boston. With music, film and fiction. Art editor is Mike several articles and interviews, we also can Robinson, and because of it we have pithy The Second Independent Video Open, read reviews of books and exhibitions. The articles, such as November's article on 1979, announces winners Helen Doyle and reviews are lengthy and well written, the ta- "News on the Left" or the Artist as Political Helene Bourgault for "Chaperons Rouge", bloid format on newsprint still allows for Animal. With WET Magazine as a proto- Colin Campbell (Toronto) for "Modern fine res~lutionin photographic image of type, yet with New York stylization, we Love", Kate Craig (Vancouver) for "Deli- which there are many. Membership in the have a beautifully produced (color as well as cate Issue", Marshalore (Montreal) for "You Center is $12.00 regular, $35.00 institutio- black and white) substantial addition to the Must Remember This" and Nancy Nicol nal. tabloid size mag. $12.00 a year ($15.00 in (Toronto) for "Miniature Theatre". Each The Center is located on the campus of Canada) from Adix, One Union Square, receives $700 and will be screened in six Boston University maintaining a master ca- New York, NY 10003. Canadian cities, The tapes were selected from 92 entries. PhlBhiCATIONS AVAILABLE Project for the Arts, a how-to-make The Museum of Modern Art celebrated Washington work for you, with legislation its 50th anniversary on 8 November and The Center for Activities of Messageries relating to artists, performance artists, non- admitted the public free to the museum. ~ssocieks,Galerie Gaetan, 52 rue ancienne, profit interests, a mini-directory to Capitol 1227 GeneveJCarouge, Switzerland an- Mill, and a resource guide for lawyers, litera- Seemingly in the dark of the night, right nounce the publication of kes Vitrines ture, etc. Write to WPA, 1226 G St., N.W., close to Halloween, three abstract, angular, (some artists working in Geneva were Washington, DC 20005. jet-black silhouettes appeared on Park invited to execute an installation for the Avenue between 74th and 75th Streets, window of the Galerie Gaetan), including Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings the work of sculptor Douglas Abdell and poster, texts in two languages, 32 reproduc- and Sculpture has recently been issued by part of the New York City Park Depart- tions, 500 ed. 8 Swiss francs) and ltJn Norton Art Gallery, 4747 Creswell Ave., ment's program for outdoor sculpture. Espace (A cycle of exhibitions which Shreveport, LA after three years of prepara- The Park Avenue dwellers did not know utilized the telephone network, the symbo- tion. It represents the Gallery's collection what to make of them. lic place of the gallery and an artist whose of Remington in all media, and costs $8.00. piece was conceived especially for this pro- Has 82 iilustrations and 26 in full color. ART lN PUBLlC PLACES gram). Record containing the registrations with text furnished by each artist. 500 ed. Art for the Price of a Phone Call (312) 935- While Rockne Kreb was dedicating his 15 Sfr. Beautifully printed. 4159. Audio Forum, a Bookspace Projecr, sky sculpture of green lasers and mirrors Chicago, EL. at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Cali- Toward the Future presents extraordinary fornia, James Pelletier lit up the lower Man- dramas (highly compressed) known as Visual Arts Handbook, new and expanded, hattan skyline to honor the 100th anniver- sintesi>(the word used by the Futurists in has been published by Visual Arts Ontario. sary of Thomas A. Edison's invention of the Italy in the 1910s and 1920s for their It has 300 pages covering the Canadian and electric light bulb. The "NightjLight" pro- brief, even abrupt syntheses) with three acts international art scene, including Canadian ject, which required six months of behind- of drama in three minutes. and International arr galleries, art schools, the-scenes cooperation from many New Toward the Future uses conventional lang- government agencies, arts organizations, art Yorkers, was sponsored by the Public Art uage and sound effect to create dramatic suppliers and art resource people. Available Fund, a nonprofit service organization illusion, The center of attention is the Futu- for $8.95 from Visual Arts Ontario, 417 founded in 1977 to assist public art pro- rists' concern with the uncanny, the bizarre, Queen's Quay West, Suite G 100, Toronto, jects. Pelletier used the buildings' blueprints the horrible. The focus is on the insanities Ontario M5V 1A2. to design the work. of 20th century life, on the contradictory "City Gates" by Merle Temkin, a piece and unexplainable. Each side has been re- London Art and Artists Guide , published of environmental art made of 3,000 mov- corded live and unedited to maintain the by the Acme Housing Association in able plastic mirrors in a chain-link fence, presence and timing of live performance, in London and edited by Heather Waddell will be on display for three years at Gate 3 including an intermission to change sides. includes listings for art galleries, workshops, of Battery Park City in Manhattan. Includes Anna Banana, Murray E., Bill artists' materials, bookshops, publishers, magazines, schools, general information, 5 "Station-to-Station", art in the subway by Gaglione, Dawn Rose Gaglione, Victoria 31 Canadian artists, appeared in 30 Toronto Kirby, E. T. Simon, and Chuck Waltz. travel, useful magazines, embassy addresses, etc. An art diary literally for the English subway stations amongst the advertisements $10.00 in check or money order ($12 inter- from 5 September through 30 November. national money order outside USA) from artist and all those travelling in England, $5.00 from Artworks. 13 color, 12 black and white and five hand- Audio Players, 18349 Neeley Rd., Guerne- tinted photographs make up the show, with ville, CA 95446. " Now that Bathroo~n Bestsellers is near the content ranging from the thought-pro- voking to the picturesque. Library of Congress: Master Photographs. A every cash register in every major bookstore chain (titles such as the Book of Lists, the new series, the first of which includes 10 p 16 sculptures dot 170 miles of superhigh- photographs carefully produced in the Li- New York Times Cookbook and The New Pork Times Puzzle Book on toilet tissue), way in the state of Vermont undulating brary, then placed in a custom mat measu- from Massachusetts to Canada. The out- ring 11 x 14 inches and combined with a word has it that the new format books are on paper towels with recipes, my dear, on door gallery is the inspiration of Art one-page note written by a curator of pho- William of the Vermont Council on the Arts each paper towel. tography at the Library. Includes work of and Paul Aschenbach, head of the sculpture Charles Currier, Walker Evans, Dorothea However, the Cuisinevu is the latest $325 invention, which is a microfiche viewer and department at the University of Vermont at Lange, Arthur W. McCurdy, Marion Post Burlington. Internationally known sculp- Wolcott, and Arthur Rothstein. $12.50 cards for 9 cookbooks right now with a po- tential for 100 books. Available at exclus~ve tors from 9 countries worked with narive each or 10 prints for $100 from Library of Vermont materials and tools supplied by a Congress, Publishing Office, Washington, DC department stores. There is also a custom service for your favorite recipes. major quarry. Council and college funds 20540. were matched by a NEA grant. NEW YORK CITY TIDBITS The sculptures are loaned to the state for 1980 Diary, printed in England, offered by a minimum of one year; the Dept. of High- Sotheby Parke Bernet, which includes all Mayor Koch presented the Mayor's Awards ways helped choose the sites, and the sculp- kinds of information about artists, galleries, tures were installed by 1971. The only cost flying times between cities and the best vin- of Honor for Arts and Culture on 5 Novem- ber to many recipients, among whom were to the state was for preparing bases and tages for specific wines. $23.50 including transporting and placing the pieces. postage from Biblio Distribution Center, Berenice Abbott, Isabel Bishop, Kitty Car- 81 Adams Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512. lisle Hart, chairman, New York State Coun- cil on the Arts, Alanna Heiss, founder and a George Rickey's "Three Squares Gyra- director of the Institute for Art & Urban tory" has not been very popular with resi- Legislative Guide to the Arts (free to artists) Resources (P.S. I), John Szarkowski, and dents of Hoosick Falls, New York, so the has just been published by the Washington more. artist thinks he will take the sculpture away and fid a place for it where it is wanted. ART AS INVESTMENT-A NEW ART Washington-a 15-by-42-foot oil-on-canvas, artist-in-residence at the V.A. Medical Cen- with a 17 -foot aluminum beam to be ter in Aines, IL near Chicago. Citibank in New York City, the country's placed on the floor to the right of the pain- second largest, has signed an agreement un- ting and two marble boulders had to be California has set a pace in arts legislation der which Sotheby Parke-Bernet would pro- arranged to the left of it.-was deemed not in the past few years. Besides its Royalty vide expert advice. This means that Citi- appropriate for the particular space involved Act, we have the Art in Public Buildings bank would ask interested private clients by a judge, and then bundled the thing up in Act which mandates that the governor in- who have portfolios of at least $10 million a corner. Workmen, thinking it was a pain- clude funds in his yearly budget for the to put up $1 million for investing in art ter's dropcloth, were ready to throw it in creation of art in public buildings; the Cali- and antiques. the garbage can. It was rescued in time and fornia Arts Preservation Act, which is in- Sotheby's will survey the international was placed on a wall of the building's plaza tended to protect works of art from inten- art market for the choicest selections, level. tional alteration or destruction; SB 812, and then Citibank will purchase the works which, among other things, authorizes lo- for clients, thus creating a balanced art PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS cal government agencies to allow zoning portfolio, which will be appraised serni- variances to allow artists and others to live annually. Record prices were set at the Auction Bene- and work in the same space; and SB 669, fit for the Friends of Photography with more which allows artists to take tax deductions "Icebergs," the long-lost masterpiece than $200,000 being raised for The Friends. based on the fair market value of works by Frederic Edwin Church was sold in Recently, the photographic auction at donated to museums and other charitable late October for $2.5 million, the highest Sotheby Parke Bernet brought in $900,000 organizations. price ever paid at public sale for an Ameri- with a print by Ansel Adams bringing more can painting. It was purchased by an than $14,000. ARTISTS & FOOD Speaking of The Friends of Photography, American collector who remains anony- mous. they are publishing Carleton E. Watkins: There is a gallery in Los Angeles called Photographs of the Columbia River and Oranges/Sardines. Oregon, edited by James Alinder in both LOST AND FOUND paper ($16.50) and cloth ($29.50). For a The Fendrick Gallery in Washington, DC more information, write them at P.O. Box According to two American researchers, recently had an exhibition by Daniel Brush, 239, Carmel, CA 93921. important clues have been found that may entitled "Koald 83: Herring and Potatoes" lead to the discovery of Leonardo da Vinci's which had the recipe for pickled herring in The Graphic Arts Research Center at Ro- long-lost mural of the Battle of Anghiari, English and in transliterated Yiddish. chester Institute of Technology has pub- painted in 1505. It has taken five years of lished A Select Bibliography on Photogra- on-the-spot detective work which led to The Sonoma Vineyards honors the art phic Conservation. Compiled to assist cura- the investigation of the west wall in the of Frederick Remington on its labels of tors and collectors in locating information Palazzo Vecchio, rather than the east wall. a set: two Cabernet Sauvignons, 1974 pertinent to the care of old photographic and a Zinfandel, 1975, limited production, IFAR (The International Foundation for imagery, the bibliography is a key to 54 im- boxed to "symbolize quality and heritage." Art Research) has published the 100 most portant articles on conservation and preser- wanted list of stolen art in its Art Theft vation. To order a copy, send $10.00 for Archive Newsletter. Bibliography no. B9119 to Order Dept., INVEFPNfiTIONAL NEWS Graphic Arts Research Center, 1 Lomb The price of tickets for Italian museums, Thieves stole a 2,500-year-old gold statu- Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. art galleries and archeological sites will at ette worth more than $500,000 from a GARC also has a new periodical dealing least be doubled to $1.20 under a bill drawn display of art objects to be auctioned for with preserving and restoring old photo- up by the minister for culture, and expected an American collector at Spinks jewelers graphs entitled PhotographiConservation, to be approved by the government. The in London. It belonger to the Brummer which is an eight-page newsletter. $5.00 ticket prices now range from 12 to 60 cents. collection, which was scheduled to be US, $7.50 Canada and Mexico. To sub- auctioned off on 16 October in Zurich. scribe, write GARC, Rochester, NY 14623. The Forum des Halles, dedicated in early The black and white terrazzo sidewalk r A couple of steeply priced books are September, represents about 40,000 square designed by Alexander Calder that stretched the catalog to the recent show at the In- meters of selling space wrapped in glass. between 78th and 79th Streets on the west ternational Center of Photography entitled Artists have been commissioned to create side of Madison Avenue was removed Recollections: 10 Women of Photography, insignificant art. recently in New York City to be replaced put together by Margaretta K. Mitchell. Fabio Rieti has clothes the massive pillars by a new sidewalk based on the original de- The price is $25.00. on level one with mosaics representing wild sign. Ansel Adams' Yosemite and the Range beasts. The pillars on level two have been The reason for the removal was that the of Light is selling for $75.00 and they were similarly wrapped by Cueco, an artist who harsh winters-have taken their toll since it standing in line waiting for him to auto- professes anticapitalist views , which is per- was installed in 1970. The 75-foot by 15- graph six copies at a time at that price! haps why his animals come from the com- foot sidewalk was shaped in an abstract mon farm rather than from the elitist zoo. Deep in the subterranean recesses of level design involving a checkboard of parallel ART & GOVERNMENT lines, half circles and sun sprays. three, a certain Atila has painted a sirupy sky peopled by couples on swings along the The Veterans Administration and the Na- ceiling of Rainbow Street. An enormous Workmen, thinking they had found a dis- tional Endowment for the Arts have an- fresco by Raymond Moretti, relating the carded dropcloth, nearly threw away a nounced a program that will place more epic of mankind from homo sapiens to Jean- $50,000 work of art commissioned for At- than $500,000 in new art works in 15 V.A. Paul Sartre m an idea curiously blending lanta's new federal building. facilities and create a pilot program for an "Triple Variances" by Sam Gilliam of Jean Cocteau and Georges Mathieu, appears 148 on the wall of one of the Forum's seven s "The Art of Russia 1800-1850", an exhi- MUSEUM NEWS cinemas. There is a slick marble sculpture bition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington by Julio Silva on the plaza. was closed by Soviet officials seven weeks The Studio Museum in Harlem has found a early, apparently as a reaction to the gal- new home in the Kenwood Building, 144 Third World artists, painters, potters, lery's scheduling a recital by a defector from West 125th Street, opposite the Harlem printers and filmmakers from about 20 the Bolshoi opera. State Office Building. countries in the Moslem world, North and The exhibition was to have run through South America, Europe and Asia recently 11 November. The Whitney Museum is now showing flooded into Asilalah, Morocco for a two- Andy Wa.rhol: Portraits of the '70s which week artists convention. Most of these ar- Paris is full of art. The major Picasso exhi- presents two portraits each of 56 interna- tists have been forced into cultural exile bition of more than 800 of the artist's pain- tional persondities. The cataIog is available in the West, to obtain facilities and inter- tings, sculptures and drawings is taking from Random House, $15.00 cloth and national recognition they need to survive place at the Grand Palais. $8.95 paper. as full-time artists. Two Pollock shows are also in Paris. One The palace within the Medina built by at the Muske $Art Moderne de la Ville de 9 The Art Institute of Chicago has celebra- the Moroccan Pasha KaSlSsounl ar tne De- Paris, entitled "Jackson Pollock, Drawing ted its 100th anniversary with an exhibition ginning of the 20th century became the into Painting" and the other at the Ameri- or retrospective survey of Henri de Tou- site for artists' workshops and cultural can Cultural Center, called "Around Jack- louse-Lautrec, curated by Charles F. Stuc- events. son Pollock, East Hampton 1946-56, 15 key, documented by an excellent catalog. 55 participants came, including a large Abstract Expressionists." contingent from the Moslem world. Future The Whitney Museum of American Art plans include a theater, museum of plas- a Recently, an art exhibit at the General has opened a new cultural facility in Lower tic arts and a milliondollar foundation for Services Administration in Washington in- Manhattan, recycling the historic First Pre- research in the developing world. tended to further awareness of Latin Ameri- cinct Police Station on Old Slip as the can culture was dismantled by its sponsors Downtown Cultural Center. More than 300 young artists and activists today in protest against the agency's ban on shouting for democracy marched through eight large panels of photographs and text. Artists' Choice Museum, New York, crea- Beijing (Peking to some of us) on the The exhibit, "Latin America: An Emer- ted and administered by artists, plans to ex- 30th anniversary of China's Communist ging Reality," is a collection of artifacts, hibit contemporary, representational pain- revolution. One of the long red and photographs, handicrafts and woodcuts ting and sculpture. The organization, which yellow banners carried by two artists gathered by Gala Inc., a nonprofit founda- has no permanent exhibit space, held its read: "If you want political democracy, tion dedicated to promoting Hispanic art first show at local New York galleries. For you must have democracy for art." and culture. more information, contact Robert Godfrey, Police earlier ordered the dismantling The GSA coordinator found objection 110 Duane St., New York, NY 10007. of an outdoor art exhibit next to the with the captions for the Chilean needle- Beijing art gallery. Police said permission work on display which said had been made GRANTS had not been given for the exhibit of 144 by the widows of men who had "disap- works by 23 artists. There is a new book called Foundation Then with a seeming easing of restrictions peared." The captions for the photographs reflected Grants to Individuals, 2d ed., which has on artistic freedom, Chinese cultural offi- recently been published by the Foundation cials decided to allow the exhibit, about narrative indictments of military govern- ments, unequal distribution of wealth, vio- Center, 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, 1 November. The show includes abstract NY 10019. This is the only publication de- canvases and nudes, both long taboo as lations of human rights and U.S. business involvement in South America. After trying voted entirely to foundation grant opportu- offensive and bourgeois, while some of the nities for individuals. $15.00 from the sculptures in wood mock unfeeling, arro- to compromise the captions, which were loaded politically and seemed to offend the Center. gant bureaucrats. GSA because no Government buildings At a recent press conference the Minister could be used for political statements, the PERFORMANCE of Culture, Huang Zhen, was asked if Mao sponsoring group just dismantled the show. Zedong's policy of no art for art's sake "Without the explanations, they are just Alzek Misheff continued his art insralla- still applied. Huang, himself a painter, lovely, colorful pieces of work that have tion/concert, which began as Music from chuckled and thrust his arm in the direc- no point. That is exactly what Latin the Sky: Part I, presented in front of Mi- tion of a large traditional landscape. "I America is for the tourists who have no lan's Duomo and utilized four balloons think you can produce anything," he said. explanation." with sound emerging from speakers near them. Part I1 was presented at Mills Col- * Picassos worth more than $100,000 were The Gare d'orsay, on the Left Bank oppo- lege, Oakland, California on 17 September. stolen from the Paris home of the late site the Tuileries Gardens, is now destined Part III was held on the campus of the Uni- artist's doctor, including seven canvases and to house the greatest collection of 19th-cen- versity of California, Irvine on 24 October. sketches. tury French art in the world. Here there was a huge balloon suspended in This includes combining the Louvre and the air with a screen halfway between the The American Center for Students and the Jeu de Paume, the former Muse'e Natio- earth and the balloon, On the screen were Artists received a $375,000 grant from the projected color slides of constellations ac- Rockefeller Foundation to renovate its buil- nal d'Art Moderne, and a considerable num- companied by a computer-translated origi- ding and to continue its artist-in-residence ber of provincial museums. nal tape of celestial music with the opportu- program for the next three years, Included in the plans are central adminis- nity for elaborations by area composers. The center is a nonprofit institution trative offices for all France's national muse- founded in 193 1. ums, a library and extensive photographic archive, a cafecum-restaurant and a large * The Art of Performance, a booklet pub- lecture theater. lished by the New York University Art De- ner, and William T.Witey. pa~tmentand the Center of Art and Com- RUBBER STAMP CATALOG$ munication of Buenos Aires documents an Some guests have been invited as well. event held at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy Top Drawer Rubber Semg Catalogue, Book in August 1979 with participants, critics and 1, etc. Available from Hancock, VT 05748. theoreticians such as Gregory Battcock, Cee Book 1, Images; 2, Comix; 3, Zodiac. S. Brown. Jorge Glusberg, Pontus Hulten, Pierre Restanp, Florent Bes, etc. The Greenville (S.C.) County Museum of The Incestuous Rubber Stamp Co., P.O. Art is establishing a Wyeth research library, Box 1054, Mcndocino, CA 95460. $1.00 A Catalog for the Public Arts Interna ,- in addition to the large collection of Wyeth for mail order catalog. tional/Free Speech Festival held 15 - 19 paintings, drawings, watercolors and other May 1979 at 75 Warren Street in Mew Vork material which they have purchased. Lost Marbles, Box 12, Venice, CA 90291 City is now available for $3.00 including has a new mail order catalog, postage and handling. There are 78 pages, 38 photographs, documentation test and The Bostonians are invading Washington Impressions Unlimited, P. 0.Box 3246, San original works from the artists. Order from to keep the Gilbert Stuart portraits of Francisco, CA 941 19. $1.00 Public Arts International, 361 Canal St. George and Martha Washington in New New York, NY 10013. England. They are sponsoring cocktail par- ties to influence important people to raise The First Intermedia Art Festival in New the necessary $5 million to help keep the York City will be held from 26 January thru Stuarts in Boston. 3 February 1980, sponsored by the Esperi- mental lntermedia Foundation. There will Speaking of Boston, models who pose be 8 Intermedia Performances at the Gug- nude for $4 an hour at local art schools genheim Museum and a Conference of Inter- plan to picket the Boston Museum of Fine national Artists and Scholars at La Maison Arts' museum school in an effort to raise Fran~aise,The Kitchen and The Donne11 their wages. Public Library. Six Workshops on Inter- Hoisting the signs, "We Shall Not be media Art Form will also be held. Nude," pickets began boycotting classes. The Festival will include solo presenta- The guild wants an immediate increase in tions and collaborative Intermedia Perfor- fees to $6 an hour. mances by Carman Moore, Elaine Summers, Pauline Oliveros, Ping Chong, Meredith Nude models recently ended their week- Monk, Ed Emshwiller, Roger Reynolds, long strike at San Jose State University Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Joan art classes after administrators promised to Jonas, Jon Gibson, Stan Vanderbeeck. The snip through red tape and try to meet their Festival will start with a commemorative re- demands. construction of Ken Dewey's "Sames", by The 29 male and female models were Gerd Stern, on 25 January at 8:30 p.m. seeking pay of $6 instead of $4, warmer rooms to pose in and better dressing room Donna Henes will perform on the morning facilities. The models complained that room of the Winter Solstice at South Beach, Sta- temperatures were so cold in the winter that ten Island, a participatory chant to invoke they got goosebumps and caught colds. the female forces of the universe present in No report has been reIeased whether the all people. The chant marks the end of the models put their clothes on again and would longest night of the year and celebrates the resume the strike, but the nlodels believed rising of the sun on the first day of winter. the administrators were making a good-faith Musical instruments, noisemakers, special effort to meet their demands. make-up will all be part of the participants. DATES TO REMEMBER After the chanting and the annointing with .I The Mark Rothko Foundation has oil of mediation, the chanters will share a received five-ninths of the over-all estate, AR hlS Annual Conference breakfast and drink the traditional mulled whose value is currently estimated at $43 New Orleans 26 - 30 January 1980 cider and wine. million. That means i.t will collect between $20 million and $23 million. College Art Association Some of the estate is in the form of pain- For one week, 16 - 24 January, on the Annual Conference island of Ponape, halfway between Japan tings. New Orleans 30 Jan. - 2 February and Hawaii, a group of artists will sit and present a minute spoken talk. The * For a small painting of two ducks, a 38- 12% National Women's Caucus Conference is called WORD OF MOUTH year-old artist has received $1 million, sin(:e for Arb 1980 Conference and is co-sponsored by Crown Point reproduction of the painting will be on the New Orleans 30 Jan. - 1 February Press and the Museum of Conceptual Art. 1980 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conserva- The talks will be published in a three- tion Stamp issued by the Interior Depart- WCAICoalition of Women's record set and will appear as Vision 4, ment. The money comes primarily from Art Organizations a publication edited by Tom Marioni of sales of reprints of the painting, eagerly Washington, DC 12 - 13 January 1980 MOCA. sought by collectors. The Interior Depart- Some of the artists invited are Laurie ment only awards the winning artist a sheet THIS IS 30 FOR THE 70s. MAY THE of stamps! Anderson, Chris Burden, Joan Jonas, 80s BE BETTER FOR ALL OF US. Daniel Buren, Brian Hunt, Robert Kush-