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Ronald W. Mays gave one of his pictures to museum items, has noticed an increase Star Axis, an observatory-sculpture in New the Denver Art Museum in November. But in the thefts from museums each year in Mexico to mark the wanderings of the pole he was arrested. the United States. More valuable items, star. Dr. Harold Edgerton, MIT professor It wasn't that his red, white and blue pain- tend to be found in museums, although and inventor of the strobe light, was chair ting entitled Hell's Guardian Angel was so private collections are also being sacked man and Otto Piene, director of the MIT objectionable. Rather, it was the way the Center, and Elizabeth Goldring, a CAVS artist decided to donate it. More than $500,000 worth of artifacts fellow, organized the conference with the According to police, Mr. Mays broke into were stolen by a Canadian from the Uni- help of many others. Visual artists as well the museum and nailed the picture to a gal- versity of California's Lowie Museum, but as were involved. Moor- lery wall. "1 just wanted to donate some most of them have been recovered. Having man played her cello while levitating a few art," he said after he was arrested. Officers been given free access to the museum vaults, feet off the ground with the aid of 60 or said that the artist was miffed when they the Canadian went to it. When he decided more oversized party-type balloons. There found him sitting in the museum lobby to sell some of the items. The items were were inflated sculptures, Tom Van Sant smoking a cigarette, a hammer beside him immediately identified, and then through flew his kites. Extreme pessimists con- on the floor. a visit to the museum, the gentleman was fronted confident optimists about the uses "Do you know how long it took me to arrested. He received a two-year prison of the sky. Future conferences will be held find a soft spot in the wall?" he asked. For sentence. in Vienna,Tokyo , Paris and . his unorthodox method of gift-giving, Mays was charged with criminal trespass and jailed A billboard painted by Alex Katz in Vietnam seems to be the theme of a few in lieu of $1,500 bond. His picture was han- 1977, 24 feet by 20 feet, depicting a exhibitions recently. In Chicago, N.A.M.E. ded over to a police custodian (NY Times). frieze of women's faces, has recently Gallery, the city's oldest alternative gallery, SLIDE SETS AVAILABLE been painted over with a garish advertise- had camouflage material stapled over the ment for a book about prison life. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a picture windows of the gallery. Inside, Catalog of Slide Sets available, which high- Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, an WOMEN exhibition of paintings, sketches, collages, lights the extensive holdings of the Museum. and Marilyn Rivchm in Ithaca The Catalog ($5.00 postage paid) is available sculputres and photographs by 21 Viemarn New York recently orchestrated a dinner of veterans was seen by more than 2,000 per- from the Photographic ServiceslSlide Libra- "women honoring women" with special fo- ry, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington sons when it opened on 9 October. It re- cus on the local history of abolitionists and ceived national coverage. Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. There are suffragists at the Unitarian Church. Almost 6,000 fully identified objects in 142 sets. The Vietnam Experience Art Exhibit, 100 women arrived, after only one week's produced by Vietnam in the Arts with the notice. The great grandniece of Harriet Tub- INTERMEDIA Vietnam Veterans Foundation, and the SCM man read from her ancestor's memoirs and Corporation, opened to the public 12 NOV- The New Music America festival for 1982 the town historian reminisced about her will take place in Chicago to honor John ember through 2 December at the Arsenal suffragist mother. On the wall hung a large Gallery and Gallery Annex in Central Park. Cage on the occasion of his 70th birthday. canvas, and throughout the evening women This festival, begun in 1979, will be part of signed their names to its branches and that Evanescent A.I.D., an installation by Ed- a grandly planned American Music Festival/ of the woman they each remembered to its Chicago 82, bover half being funded by ward Henderson in the windows of Grey Art roots. A much larger dinner is planned Gallery in New York City is on view until Mayor Jane Byrne's Office of Special Events for the Spring that would attract 500 wo- 6 the end of December 1981. There are more The dates will be July - 11. men from various racial and ethnic cornmu- than 130 handpainted suitcasees, stacked on nities. The performance, Tree: A Perfor top of each other, in the two large windows. Richard Cameron, a pianist on the univer- mance with Women of Ithaca is one of a The left window contains red suitcases with siry's dance faculty, undertook a complete series of community organizing celebrations flesh-colored images painted on them, the solo performance of Erik Satie's Vexations that Lacy has instigated as part of her com- right window contains flesh-colored suit- during the Soundings exhibition at the Neu- mitment to bring together feminist theory cases with red images. berger Museum of SUNY at Purchase The and practice with . ~erformancelasted 23 hours. Mass and Individual Moving uses Pioneer ARCHITECTURE The Image Considered: Recent Work by to create a project within the framework of With a $500,000 grant to the Library of Women is an exhibition of 76 works by 17 Congress from I.B.M. , the papers and wor- American artists shown through the month a global program on light. Produced by a king materials of Charles Earnes have been of January at the Minneapolis College of group called Mass and Individual Moving in Brussels, Belgium, Pioneer is printing acquired by the Library. Included will be Art and Design. This is a show organized by a machine that functions due to light energy drawings of all the major futrniture designs, the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, which is converted into electricity by a the original negatives and prints of all 106 NY. films he created, business correspondence system of sun cells. A normal sunny day will produce enough energy to ensure the from 1944 to 1978, approximately 400,000 INNOVATIVE ART functioning of the machine for a period of color slides, 31,000 black and white photo- Sky Art, September 25 - 29 was held at the three hours. During the months of May graphs and production materials for exhibits Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Included was through August 1981, Pioneer has been in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Osdorp, Middel- LOST AND FOUND slow-scan TV contact with artists in Austra- burg, Alkmaar, Den Helder, and in Middel- The International Foundation for Art lia by Aldo Tarnbellini and others, Rockne kerke and Brussels in Belgium. Research, which publishes a list of stolen Krebs used prisms, Charles Ross is building The group was founded in 1968, doing many throughout she world. m A new museum has opened in New York sity was recently dedicated on 20 November They have painted shadows pink, printed City, the world's first Museum of Phil* where the memory of the former librarian flowers on the road, wrapped people up sophy, sponsored by Pace University at at OSU was honored by naming the library in plastic. 150 Nassau Street. after her. With more than 3 decades of What Pioneer does is print poetical exceptional service to Ohio State and to th slogans on public squares of cities and Jean Seberg's life and death is the subject the profession of art librarianship, jacquie villages. Each slogan bears the signature of a multi-media installation by Margia Kra- Sisson's contributions will be honored in of its author and is distributed to the pub- mer ar the through this singular manner. lic. Mass and Individual Moving has the 27 October. Enfitled The Media Mat* and cooperation of many living poets in creating the Jean Seberg Story, the installation a m The Annex, a eontemporary arts library these slogans. For more information, write allows the artist to examine the truths and functioning as part of and/or in Seattle, to MAIM, 41 Lebeaustreet, 1000 Brussels, fictions surrounding Seberg, after carrying reopened in a grand manner on 9 October Belgium. The founder and moss devoted out detective-like research using declassified with a new name, The Annex which boasts member is Raphael Opstaele, a one-time documents obtained through the 1974 collections on performance art, video, con- filmmaker from Flanders. Freedom of Information Act. A book ac- temporary music, dance, visual arts, thea- companied the installation and is also on ter, arts funding, literary arts, film, archi- MUSEUM NEWS sale at Printed Matter. tecture, political art, design, and arts busi- In San Francisco, developers of Yerba ness and law includes books, exhibition Buena Center have offered $35 million to Guernica by Picasso, which was on exten- catalogs, magazines and newspapers, as help pay for a new Asian Art Museum in the ded loan to the Museum of Modern Art well as video and audio recordings. The downtown San Francisco redevelopment since 1939, has been sent to the Museo del Annex is located at 911 E. Pine, Seattle, project. If the negotiations succeed, the mu- Prado in Madrid, Spain, for permanent WA 98122. seum would house both the Avery Brundage installation. Also sent with the mural were collection now kept in Golden Gate Park 62 preliminary studies and "postscnpts" The is micro- and the fabled- Norton Simon Asian art in a variety of media, all lent by the artist. filming 6,000 books destroyed during the collection, now in Pasadena. Simon has said It went on exhibit in Spain protected by a blitz on the night of 10 May 1941, when he would donate the priceless collection to framed panel of bulletproof glass. the old Iron Library of the British Museum San Francisco if it could be properly was destroyed. These 6,000 books on MICROFICHE housed. Americana include humanities, social As part of the deal, the Asian Art Museum County Courthouses of the United States, sciences, medical journals and law books, commission and the Fine Arts Museum published by the Dunlap Society with the scientific and technical subjects, and gov- board of directors would have to agree to support of the Library of Congress and assis- ernment documents. This is a fiveyear raise another sum, around $7 mdlion, to ted by grants from Joseph E. Seagram and project, financed by the Ameican Trust for remodel the Asian Art Museum for the Sons, the National Historical Records and the British Library, which has received a needed expansion of its next-door neigh- Publications Commission, the NEA, and the grant fromthe Mellon Foundation to under- bor the M.H. de Young Museum, and Samuel H. Kress Foundation, is available, write the project. Obviously, the microfilm finance the moves. including 180 sixty-frame microfiche in two is a gift from certain persons in the U.S. t volumes. Each volume costs $200. The to the British people, making the British The Metropolitan Museum of Art has documentation for particular states or coun- Museum. the greatest resource outside the established a Real Estate Council composed ties also can be purchased for $3 per fiche. U.S. for research into every aspect of of prominent persons in the field "to orga- The volumes and individual fiche can be American life and thought. nize the real-estate interests of New York purchased from the Dunlap Society, Lake City in support of the Metropolitan." Champlain Road, Essex, NY 12936. RUBBER STAMP NEWS

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has Chadwyck-Healey/Somerset House offers Stampol4 vol. 1, no. 1 was issued in dedicated and occupied its brand-new $22 Art Exhibition Catalogues on Microfiche: November, edited and published by million West Wing, designed by I.M. Pei & A core collection for the art library, which Geraldine Serpa. Included in this first Partners. The barrel-vaulted glass roof, includes catalogs from Chicago to Munich, issue arenews and notes about rubber which rises 3 stories high, is monumental. as well as major museums in Paris, New stamps, stamp reviews, a profile of Carol Public comfort seems to be the museum's York and London. In addition, they offer Law, a catalog of the Eureka I Have Found priority. The Art Exhibition Catalogs Subject bdex, It rubber stamp postcard show, call for en- a subject index to the 32,000 exhibition ca- tries for rubber stamp and mail art shows, The proposed Museum of Contemporary talogs in the collection of the Arts Library, as well as an article on how to make rubber University of California at Santa Barbara Art in Los Angeles, hoped to open in time stamps from erasers. Published four thes For more information, write to Chadwyck- for the 1984 Summer Olympics, will pro- a year, Starnpola is available by mail for $10 Healey Ltd., 417 Maidand Ave., Teaneck, bably not be ready by the Olympics, and a year, from P.O. Box 1493, Eureka, CA 07666. may not even be ready in late 1984. Many NJ 95502. If you wish to submit news and The National Collection of WatercoIors in delays have created a postponed opening other information, please do so. Serpa is the Victoria and Albert Museum is being date. looking for artworks and call for entries offered on color microfiche by Ormonde for mail art and rubber stamp shows. The new Studio Museum in Harlem will Publishing Ltd. and distributed by Somer- open next May, although it is only moving set House in Teaneck, NJ. The Best Impressions is a show of artwork a few blocks down 125th Street from Fifth and rubber stamps by Leavenworth Jackson Avenue to the block between Seventh and LIBRARIES and Robert Wenzlaff at the Long Beach Mu- Lenox Avenues. seum of Art Bookshop/Gallery during the The Jacqueline Demorest Sisson Fine Arts month of November. Library, Sullivant Hall, Ohio State Univer- R. Saunders is sponsoring a Performance1 The National Gallery of Modern Art in formerly the site of the Burlington Mills Stamping Activiry "To Be Experienced" at Lisbon was completely destroyed by acci- exhibition. The sponsor is the non-profit a future date. A mail art exhibit is to be at dental fire on 20 August 1981. The first des Creative Time Inc. agency, and the space East Michigan University in March, 1982. troyed a large part of the national collection is donated by Fisher Brothers, owners of Included in the show are E. F. Higgins 111, of 20th century art (Portuguese) and all the the building. Gary Allen, George Brett, Russell Butler, drawings that had been submitted to the Michael Mollett, Lon Spiegelman, Frank LIS'81 - Lisbon International Show, a bien- PHOTOGRAPHY Ferguson, Steve Durland, Pat Beilman, nial. Photovision, a new magazine from Madrid, Jerry Dreva, Cracker Jack Kid, Scott As most of the records of the Biennial is a bimonthly. All texts are in Spanish and Helmes, Bill Ray, Blaster Ackerman, and were destroyed, it is not possible for the English. $30 for annual subscription from Saunders himself. Other artists are to be museum to inform all participants personal- Photovision, Lopez de Hoyos, 62, E-Madrid confirmed in participating in this mail art ly of their loss. Artists that submitted work 2, Spain. piece using publications or printed matter and have not yet been notified are asked to which are photocopied and headlined onto write to Dirreccao-Geral da Accao Cultural, European Photography 8 is devoted to cashier's tape. Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Av. da Re- Immigrants. publics 16, 1094, Lisbona Codex, Portugal. INTERNATIONAL NEWS A catalog will be published no matter what Photo Communique for Fall 1981 has a Lamella Distribution is a source for posters, portfolio by George LeGrady, has an arti- postcards and books from Australia. Their A new artists' organization has been crea- cle by A. D. Coleman on Hybridization: A illustrated catalog. If you are a bookdealer ted in Britain, the Visual Artists Rights Photographic Tradition, and a discussion of or have an artists' bookshop, write to Society (VARS) modelled after similar soci- the new "instant" color productions by Po- Lamella Distribution, 15 Harris St., Padding eties in France, Germany and Holland. laroid and Kodak by Henry Wilhelm. ton NSW, Australia 2021. Robert Dean, Art Books has issued his President Mirterand of France, whose Catalog 2, with books offered on Photo- twin passions for the arts and for Socialism graphy, film, architecture and design. Write had never before conflicted, finally decided to Robert Dean Art Books, 1781 Beach, in late October to eliminate paintings, San Francisco, CA 94123. sculpture and antiquities from the rest of things that will be considered taxable wealth Ansel Adams was presented the 1981 Erna under the new wealth tax law. Marc Chagall and Victor Hasselblad Gold Medal and the cheered; painters, art collectors, gallery Hasselblad Award at the Museum of Modern owners and auctioneers, who had been pre Art on 18 November 1981. The medal and dicting that Paris would rapidly achieve the prize are $20, 000, given to him by the artistic standing of ~insk,expressed great King and Queen of Sweden. relief. The Schnabel phenomenon was cited and Image, the magazine of the George East- Although 50-year-old modem art has just intensely discussed in a long article by Grace man House, has come out with vol. 24, no. made a hit in Russia for four months, non- Glueck about the fresh talent and new 1 on contemporary photography at Eastmsn conformist artists have niade some advances buyers which are "brightening the art House. since an outdoor exhibition of their works world." The arGcle appeared on 18 October was violently disrupted seven years ago, but in . "Another Side of Rauschenberg" by Andy official museums and galleries still lean over- Grundberg appeared in the NYTimes Maga- whelmingly toward representative works or The Metropolitan Museum of Art will zine for 18 October 1981. folk art. not carry King of the Confesson, Thomas CONFERENCES Hoving's latest controversial book. Hoving El Greco of Toledo: An International Ex- was the former director of the Met. The The 12th International Sculpture Conference hibition, rhe first major retrospective show reason is because "it gives a misleading irn- will be held in August 1982 in Oakland, Ca- of paintings by El Greco, 1540-1614, will pression of the museum's acquisitions poli- lifornia. For more information about open in Madrid, Spain in the spring of 1982. cies then and now." meetings throughout the U.S. to plan for The show will begin its U.S. tour at the Na- this international conference, write to ISC, tional Gallery and then traveI to the Toledo * Objects by Artists, 1915-65 was an exhi- 1800 Wisconsin Ave., Washington, DC Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of bition presented by Helen Serger and Timo- 20007. Fine Arts. thy Baum at La Boetie Gallery in October. documenta 7 is being organized by Coosje The United States conmbution to the There was a survey of Dada and Surrealist objects by Baader, Joostens, Duchamp, van Bruggen, Gerrnano Celant, Rudi Fuchs 1982 , the international (director), Johannes Gachnang and Gerhard art show opening next June in Venice, Man Ray, Cornell, Schwitters, Joseph Storck. The dates are 19 June through 29 will be a retrospective of the work of Beuys as well as Andre Breton, Roland September in Kassel, West Germany. , the late environmental Penrose, Jean Cocteau and Laurence Vail. Some of the artists invited are Luciano sculptor. The exhibition is not to be missed and is continuing through 31 January. Fabro, Per Kirkeby, , Niele It is rumored that Studio International, Toroni, Barry Flanagan, Armando, Scott Ruckus Manhattan, the funny, free-stan- which last appeared in August 1980, is Burton, Markus Lupertz, Rene Daniels, Ian- ding environmental homage to New York about to hit the newsstands with an issue nis Kounellis, , Gilbert & giving artists' impressions of the 70's. Jasia by Red and Mimi Grooms, is on exhibit George, Marco Bagnoli, Stanley Brouwn, from 18 December through 31 March in the Reichardt had readied material 14 months , On Kawara, , lobby of a midtown office building, 1345 ago. John Chamberlain, Markus Raetz, and Avenue of the Americas, at 54th Street, Richard Tuttle. The Nihilist Olympics will be held in Hanne Tierney presented a performance, Fashion Moda is located in New York City Los Angeles in 1984, directed by Elisha working with free-standing, life-size mario- but has a series of exhibitions, lectures, per- Shapiro, Tobi Redlich and Molly Cleator. nettes at Franklin Furnace in October. The formances, installations, seminars, and pub- Among some of the highlights of the alter marionettes will be on display at Rosa Es- lications taking place in November and Olympics will be the Rosie Ruiz marathon, man Gallery in New York City in December December in California, New Orleans, and in honor of the woman who fraudulently and performances will take place on Wed- New York City, entitled "National Pro- won the Boston marathon last year by ta- nesdays and Saturdays. jects and Development Program." king a short cut, the decathlon of house ART SALES work, the freeway driving relay, and the Toward the Future with Gaglione, Z. It was announced that UCLA was de-acces- Lazlo Toth Art Defacing Marathon, in ho- Dean and Rockola was performed at La sioning some of the gifts that had been be nor of the man who assaulted the Pieta with Mamelle in November. These are pieces stowed upon it. And so at Sotheby's Los a hammer. from Italian Futurist Theater. PERFORMANCE ART Angeles in October, a world record auction price for Arthur G. Dove's work brought Taboo Subjects, SSexuality and Violence in ALTERNATIVE OR ARTIST SPACES in $160,000 for his 1930 painting, Dancing the 80s, was recently performed by Sue Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) in Se- Tree. Some other works sold off were ones Dakin, and Giuditta Tor- attle held a public forum on 10 November. by Alberto Buni, Horace Pippin, Gino Se- netta at Espace DBD in Los Angelcs. The first planned exhibition of ,COCA. is verini. a series of 5 installations by James Turrell, Thanks, but No Thanks was a weeklong international renowned artist who uses The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, citywide public art event for Thanksgiving, light as both the subject and medium of his 1981 in Los Angeles, including work by art. For more information, write to P.O. Texas has recently acquired for $6 million over 40 artists in all different media. The Box 12756, Seattle, WA 98111. a large full-lentgth poraait of a Spanish week was a project of Los Angeles court figure, painted about 1631-33. Political Art Documentation/Distribution A Space in Toronto announces that Radio (L.A.P.A.D.) a newly formed group of so- by Artists, a series of 10 half hour radio pro- A record American auction price for a cially concerned artists. grams, is now available for distribution. In- medieval manuscript was set when Hans cluded are 31 works specifically designed Kraus paid $225,000 for a 15th century Northern Italian handbook on good health Carolee Schneeman gave two perfor- for broadcast with work by , practices entitled, "Tacuinum Sanitatis." mances at the Women's Interart Center and Clive Robertson, David Troostwyk, Michael At the recent auction of the Julien Levy Interart Gallery in November, Fresh Blood- Snow, , Tom Sherman, Nancy collection of modern paintings and sculp- A Dream Morphology and What's Wrong Wolt, Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge, Ian ture, a record $280,000 was paid for a Gor- with this Picture? Murray, Steve Willats, , Peter Downsbrough, among others. Avail- ky painting, Study for Agony. 6 Plays by Ulises ~arriAn,performed by able from A Space, 299 Queen Street West, Darling ~.arleneand William Gaglione at Suite 507, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5V 129. The has issued a new cata- La Mamelle in San Francisco on 20, 21 log, On Art and Artists, with complete des November was a world premiere. The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts criptions of all the videotapes available Forum is now located at 7 West de la Guerra (102) available for rental or sale. Write to The City of Miami and Mary Luft & Co. in Santa Barbara, CA 93101. It opened Video Data Bank, The School of the Art presented Miami Waves on 24 October with with an exhibition of Wayne Thiebaud, a Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive at new and improvisational music, perfor selection of works from his .own personal Jackson BIvd., Chicago, IL 60603. mance art, new dance, video art, conceptual collection. art, experimental film and poetry-an all- Imagination Video, Suite 411, London In- day event, which was free to the public. Forecast, a public artspace in Minneapolis, ternational Press Centre, 76 Shoe Lane, recently had an exhibition of Non-Tradi- London EC4A 3JB has recently announced 6 Kirsten Hawthorne performed Real Truths tional Color Photographs, the work of five a new venture covering the study of fashion and Virgil Moorefield performed Line of area photographers. and fashion design on video. Tapes are for Force at 626 Broadway on 30 October. sale, and are universally compatible to all and/or in Seattle has a new monthly equipment. Subscriptions are available at William Hellermann performed City newsletter for its video and film artists. the substantial discount of El85 per year. Games at the Alternative Museum in New Focal Point holds informal screenings and The first videotape is devoted to the work York City on 7 November. discussions of the work of local media ar- of Zandra Rhodes. tists. It also, publishes a newsletter, listing Joyce Cutler Shaw performed Messenger, resources, distribution, grants and festivals, will have a major retro- a readinglperformance for United Nations as well as a monthly calendar. spective at the Whitney Museum of Ameri- Day at Espace DBD in Los Angeles. can Art from 30 April through 27 June Fashion Moda has joined forces with Ga- 1982. This is the most comprehensive ex- Word Image was performed by Geoffrey leria de la Raza of San Francisco, presen- hibition ever devoted to a singIe video artist, Cook, Sue Fishbein, Nancy Frank, Sabina ting the work of over 50 artists from the representing all aspects of Paik's career as ar- Ott and Sonya Rapoport on 20 October at San Francisco Bay area, the South Bronx, tist and composer with more than 60 works, the Heller Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, and New York City. There are including music scores, multi-media sculp- Berkeley. many curators, and no particular media are ture, environments, and more than a dozen involved. All are included. video installations. 139 During the-course of the exhibition, there Contemporary Art and its architect, Arata page. In addition, there are performance will be performances by Paik and Charlotte Isozaki; a tribute to the late Konrad Wachs- synopses of works presented by Boston Moorman and a television performance with mann; a portfolio of furniture by artists, Performance Artists members in 1980-81. Paik in New York and in Ger- and substantial coverage of the Monterey A fascinating approach. For more infor- many broadcast live via satellite. Design Conference. mation, write BPA Letter, 271 Park St., The magazine hopes to be a forum for West Roxbury, MA 02132. AUDIO ART Western architectural and artistic culture. $18 for one year from Arts and Architec- Lively Press is a little magazine done by Zona in Florence, Italy requests that any ture, The Schindler House, 835 No. Kings Bob Monahon in Limerick, Maine which artists who have executed sound or audio Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90069. contains information, anecdotes, good ad- works are invited to send cassettes or vice about publishing, impresssions and records to Zona, Box 1486, Firenze, Italy. Source: Notes in the Histoy of Art is views that you won't find in your local Last summer Zonaradio transmitted pro- published by Susan Weber and edited by newspaper. For the price of 4 20- cent grams in May, June and July with tapes Donna Seldin. A quarterly, the journal is stamps, you can have four issues, so don't from artists all over the world. available from Ars Brevis, Inc., 210 E. 68th walk, but run to your mailbox and send Projected programs this fall and winter St., New York, NY 10021 for $15.00 per to Bob Monahon, Lively Press, RFD2, Box will include work that is received from year in US, $18 from Mexico and Canada, 368, Limerick, ME 04048. visual and sound anisrs. Included have and $20.00 foreign countries. H. W. Jan- been works by Baldessari, Dieter Roth, son, general advisor to the journal, also The Wire, a handmade, "liberated" little Robert Lax, John Cage, Jack Goldstein, writes an article on brevity, entitled "The magazine, edited by Sharon Wysocki, Ernst Jandl, Dick Higgins, John Armle- Soul of Wit." started small, but is growing. 8% x 11 der, Dennis Oppenheim, Heidsieck, Brian paper, with typewritten texts, there are Eno and so many more. Skyline, The Architecture and Design illustrations, concrete poetry, profiles Review is back with its October 1981 of artists (Vol. 1, no. 1 featured Sean Herbert Kretschmer announces that at issue. 10 times a year, Skyline is published Morton). Quarterly, The Wire now is Produzentengalerie in Munich in June by Rizzoli for the Institute for Architecture accepting contributions for considera- there was a Sound Program with the and Urban Studies, and is a hard-hitting, tion in all mediums, visual to audio. Black Archive of VEC Audio Exchange available demanding publication on architecture, its and white photos will be considered, but for listening in June and July, including influence and its people. Large format ta- are not returnable. Yearly subscription new music, audio concepts, sound poetry, bloid on book paper, it is handsomely de rares are $2.50. Make checks or money poetry, environmental documentation and signed. 10 issues for $20 or $36 airmail orders payable to Progressive Press, 7320 manipulation, audio drama, and innovative overseas from Leo Cucco,Rizz. International Colonial, Dearborn Heights, MI 48127. undefinable work. Publications, 712 Fifth Ave., New York, NY The Art Economist, edited by Kenneth S. At the same time, there was video docu- 10019. menration from many alternative spaces Friedman and Holly O'Grady, is a new biweekly which is a service to its readers. in the U.S., Holland, Germany, Belgium Metropolis: The Architecture and Design Loaded with timely news, well-researched and England. Magazine of New York began publishing in the summer of 1981 and is also a large ta- analysis, exclusive reports on auctions, NEW PERIODICALS exhibitions, new technology and people, bloid on book paper. Included are long arti- The Art Economist is a vital new tool to cles, good photo essays on architectural dra- Cipher, a remarkable journal from England, know what really is going on in the art wings, with emphasis on new ideas and new uses black and white and color Xerox, in- world at home and abroad. There is a work from architects, photographers, wri- serts, interesting offset, poetry, prose, reci- special Charter Subscription rate of $150 ters, artists, etc. $18 from P.O. Box 525, pes, , and more. Literally a hand-made peri- from The Art Economist, Box 600, Canal Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013. odical with numbered copies in the limited Street Station, New York, NY 10013. edition of 500, Cipher is edited by Jake Til- Bomb recently issued volume 1, no. 1 in the DEATH & RESURRECTION son, published by the Woolley Dale Press, Spring 1981. Large tabloid with slick cover 44 Broomwood Rd., London SW11. $3.00 and newsprint pages. Articles are by Kathy' Artes Visualas, Mexico's major art journal, per issue, or write to Cipher Magazine and Acker, Michael ,McClard, Tiny L'Hotsky, has had some problems recendy. Apparent- ask rhem to send you Cipher quarteriy Duncan Smith, Joan Jonas. Emphasis seems with an invoice. An exceptional addition ly, the political turmoil which oftentimes to be on new literature and new films with to the visual literature. occurs during a transitional period between interviews of new filmmakers, such as presidencies, has affected the magazine. Amos Poe. , a consultant to the Aurora: JournaI of Lightography is acombi- Just prior to press time, the entire upcoming magazine, has published New World Infor nation of historicalftraditional printmaking issue was confiscated due to requess for mation Order, a manifesto of the non- major changes in the magazine's format, disciplines with emerging technologies, in- aligned movement. Sarah Charlesworth is contents, and direction. The senior editorial cluding in each issue a print edition. All art director, and Betsy Sussler is editor. new subscribers receive a Rayprint Button. staff, including the Editorin-chief Carla Subscriptions are on microfiche only! Everyone else re- All for $5.00 from Aurora, W. Mark Stellweg, was dismissed. $10 for 3 issues from Bomb, 591 Broad- Feyereisen, RR2, Box 153, Shakopee, MN fused to work under the "new regime" and way, New York, NY 10012. announcement by the old staff of a new 55379. periodical in both Spanish and English on Arts + Architecture has resumed publication Boston Performance Artists Letter (vol.1, contemporary art was received bv many after a 14-year absence. This new quarterly, no. 1, Fall 1981) is disaibuted to members of US. More to come- stunningly printed now under the editor- as well as parties interested in the creation, Left Curve, long absent from the news- ship of Barbara Goldstein, focues on a re- discussion and support of Performance Art. gion spanning from the Pacific Northwest stands, will be publishing soon again. The Divided into two sections, the first is news, management has decided that they must"re to Texas. The first issue emphasizes Cali- and the second consists of artworks sub- affirm the necessity to struggle toward hu- fornia with a look at the new Museum of mitted for publication, printed one per man emancipation through an affirmation mid, Matt Hartley, Jack Goldstein, there is postage. of our aesthetic sensibility. . . Left Curve also a piece called Monument by Susan Some artists included are Sas Colby, Rock- will strive to take part in the struggle against Hiller, a four-page work of art by Luciano ola, Artfoot, Anna Banana, Buster false consciousness produced by the domi- Bartolini, works by Robert Fones, Matt Cleveland, Bill Gaglione, Patrick T., Gerry nant culture of profit-motivated self-cen- Mullican, etc. -OR40 celebrates Uncle Miller, Stephanie Weber and more and more. teredness by promoting cultural expressions Don Milliken's 40th birthday as well with

of revolt and hope." The next i~ueshould a handmade book of objects, rubber stamps, f~ Recently in Paris at the J. Walter Thomp- be out within two months. Write to Left labels, little books, postcards, Xeroxes, and son Advertising Agency, a copy art group Curve, P.O. Box 674, Oakland, CA 94604. photos. An edition of 30 from Uncle Don show in November included work from the ARTISTS' PUBLICATIONS in Sunderland, MASS-Public Illumination Color Xerox Annuals from San Francisco, Magazine for September 1981 (no.17) is in as well as work by Saloff who handcolors The Artists Studio Handbook, a joint pub- living color, a little magazine with self-portraits done on a black and white lication from Artic Producers and Artlaw living color, a little magazine with remar- copier and mounts them in a patchwork Services Ltd. is a reference tool for artists, kable portability and imagination. Theme is fashion on large canvases. Much of this educators and art administrators in England. Excess. Available throughout the U.S. and work has been shown due to the enthusi- Scope is to give the basic practical infonna- Europe, but also from 257 Lafayette St., asm of art curator and critic, Chrisrian Rigal tion on how to go about setting up a group New York, NY 10012 for 50 cents. of Paris. studio, written from the legal viewpoint, along with 'case histories' of several diffe- COPY ART Gallery Sanchez in San Francisco at the rent studios. There is also a list of group Noe Valley Ministry in November presented studios nationally (in Great Britain) with The third edition of Barbara Cushman's a group exhibition by San Francisco color the list of artists in them along with other free-style Color Xerox Calendar, in a limited Xerox artists, including Bill Briski, Jeff relevant information. Available for fS.00 edition of 280, has just been published in Errick, Richard Feeney, Dallison Danow, sterling from overseas to Artists Newsletter, San Francisco. It is the most ambitious and Carl Heyward, Eleanor Kent, Mark Allen, 17 Shakespeare Terr., Sunderland SR2 7JG, impressive collection of photocopy art since Lawrence Rippee and Rene Yanez. Tyne & Wear. the beginning of the project in 1980. To allow for the participation of many ta- Gerry Miller showed his color Xerox work The Art Magazine in England tells us that lented artists, there are multiple versions of at the Postcard Palace in Novembe! in San New Style is being relaunched, losing its every month. This 1982 edition boasts 104 Francisco and at Real Art Ways in Hartford punk image and moving toward Time Maga- contributors, with contributions from Ja- in December. zine, and that Art & Artist has also.returned. pan, Chile, France, Italy and West Germany, thanks to the efforts of Christian Rigal, an 8 Howard Goldstein showed his remarkable My Secret Life in the Mail, published by art curator based in Paris. Color Xerox Collages at Inroads Gallery, Cheryl Cline, is still a beautiful little mag The 1982 calendar contains both vertical 150 Mercer St., New York City from 27 and runs articles on Lon Spiegelman tea- and horizontal compositions in an 8% x 14 October through 21 November. ching mail art, as well as listing vendors inch format. The edition has been spiral- for rubber stamps-Format for Autumn 81 bound, either vertically or horizontally, PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE involves fraud in art or truth in art-Views: printed on an off-white (buff) paper which The Journal of Photography in New Eng- adds a richness to the color Xerox prints, The '81 Annual of Ad Productions in Japan land tells us that Barbara Bush, the vice- and a heavier weight stock has been used to is a stunning art directors' dream. Included, president's wife, has said that "hospitals enhance the life of the prints. however, in this trade publication is a very and the arts will just have to wait until we Two Artists of the Year have been selected important essay by Itsuo Okubo, the Chief have licked the problems of inflation ..." with Patrick Beilman (aka Cowtown Art) Librarian and Curator of the Museum Li- New Art Examiner for October starts a designing the 1983 page, and Alan Hunter brary, Musashino Art University, which is new feature, the art press reviewed, as who has done a special edition of small, entitled,"Posten, Japan and the West Seen well as a new classified section-Criss-Cross rubber checks, one to be attached to each Categorically." The similarities and diffe artists appeared at the Yellowstone Art Cen- calendar with the identifying tag "1982: rences are brought out between western and ter in Billings, Montana from 6 November The Year of the Rubber Check." eastern poster art. Poster design in Japan is to 31 December- is featured No two calendars are alike, since Cushman stunning, and this is a very special publica- in Profile (vol. 1, no. 5) from the Video randomly collates the edition. In other tion. Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of words, every calendar has one version of Chicago-Afterimage for October contains every month but no two calendars have the Eaton/Shoen Gallery in San Francisco an interview with and a dis- same combination of artists. announces the publication of portfolios, cussion of Barbara Crane's photographs- All the prints comprising the 1982 Color New York, New York, From the Peaceable Ear Magazine East for October/November Xerox Annual will be exhibited in January Kingdom and Homage to Max Ernst by includes sound poetry with works by Dick 1982 at the Intersection Gallery in San Wolf von dem Bussche, who is now exclu- Higgins, Jerome Rothenberg, Bernard Heid- Francisco (756 Union St., San Francisco, sively represented by the Gallery. Write to sieck, Charles Doria, Piotr Rypson, and CA 94133) and arrangements are being 500 Paul Ave., San Francisco,CA 94124 for Polish Futurist Poetry-File (vol. 5, no. 2, made to show the calendars in Paris. Indivi- further information. 1981) is out and is wild as ever with Tina dual calendars are selling for $35.00 and can Turner on the cover. With an album of cur be ordered from Barbara Cushman, Fine The new 2nd Edition of the National rent art by new and established artists such Hand Productions, P.O. Box 26082, San Directory of Arts & Education Support by as David Salle, Sol LeWitt, Komar & Mela- Francisco, CA 94126. Please add $3.00 for Business Corporations is now available for pre-publication subscription with a saving made of 3,500 balloons stretching over view, Box 50132, Washington, DC 20004. of $10.00. For $65.00 (regular price is a block. $75), you can order it from WIAL, P.0 Box 9005,Washington, DC 20003. Francis Hines at the North Wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, suspended 9 "The ups and downs of getting small press a sculpture from four brick columns, made output to the retail book market" by Ed H of 800 yards of nylon parachute cloth. The Hogan appeared in Publishers' Weekly for piece is called "Suspended Sculpture." It 2 October 1981, pp. 90-94. was on exhibit until 22 November.

Califarnia Art Review ($14.95),San Fran- ART READER cisco Art Review ($9.95)and Los Angeles Art Review ($7.95) have recently been Soho News for 29 September 1981 featured published by Celestial Arts in Millbrae, "Art A~tacks! Heavy Volley at Aesthetic California, all edited by Hank Baum. A11 Folly" by John Berger, Arthur Danto, Peter these volumes have a handy cross reference Fuller, Clement Greenberg, and Rosalind WANTED: Artists' Records-for a mono- which permits you to find galleries by art Krauss.. . .VilIage Voice featured recently graph and international discography of 'styles' that are exhibited, as well as an "Art Mediators: What Comes Between You artists' records by Peter Frank. Publica- index to artisrs of over 2,000 names and and the Art, a Special Section of the Village tion: Mid-1982 (project funded by a grant where they exhibit. For more informa- Voice," edited by Jeff Weinstein, including from the NEA). Phonograph records only! tion, write to Celestial Arts, 231 Adrian Rd., "What Art Magazines Do to Art, Arts for And artists' records, tpes and cassettes- Millbrae, CA 94030. Ads' Sake? The Problem of the Magazines" for a complete international discography of by Lawrence Alloway, characterized by the artists' records, sound art, new music, text- INNOVATIVE ART spread of the market, beyond the adverti- sound and electronic music, and upcoming sing pages, to the editorial section and to book-length guide to sound art and artists "Newsprints" in which artists use the the writing of art criticism itself.. . . The and record and cassette editions, being com- newspaper as their canvas in a unique expe- New York Times Magazine for October 11 piled by 5. George and M. DeFoe of one ten riment, has been initiated by the Los Ange- featured the Costakis Collection at the records. les Herald-Examiner. Four artists were Guggenheim Museum, called "Russia's Lost If applicable, send a copy of the record or called in to create original works that would Revolution in Art" by Hilton Kramer. The tape, information on the label, catalog num- involve the physical, visual or conceptual November 8 issue had an interesting article ber, availability, source, cost, and other dis- properties of a newspaper. Included are by Paul Goldberger on "The New American tinctive features of the recording , bio- Jerry Burchfield, Alexis Smith, Mike Skyscraper.". . . ARTnews for November graphy on the artist, complete discography Kelley, and Kim MacConnell. MacConnell's features "New Faces in Alterantive Spaces" on the artist, and visual support material. appeared in a Sunday section of the news- by Deborah C. Phillips, with emphasis on Peter Frank for phonograph records, one paper in November. The other three were New York City. . . Architectural Digest for ten records for phonograph records, tapes featured in an article by art critic, Christo- November has "A Conversation with and cassettes. Write to M. DeFoe, One Ten pher Knight, in the 22 November issue of Christo" . . . Graphis 215 features Karl Records, 110 Chambers St.. New York. the newspaper. This is truly an intermedia Kernpton and his periodical Kddron. . . NY 10007. (212)964-2296. experience between the technical accom- Connoisseur for October had an amcle on plishments of the media, the newspaper "Living with Art in Los Angeles." . . . printing press, and the visual artist. RUTGERS ART REVIEW. Third issue to Quiver no. 7 is the catalog for Women1 appear in January 1982. Only art history Image/Nature, a traveling exhibition curated journal nationally produced by graduate stu- PUBLIC ART by Martha Madigan at the Tyler School of dents for articles by graduate students. Basic Art, 1 - 19 December, 1980. Included is subscription $7.00 for grad. students, $9.00 The Public Art Fund in New York City has work by Sue Smith, Gwen Widmer, Joanne for everyone else. Subscriptions from RAR, sponsored the installation of a contempo- Leonard, Vida Freeman, Meridel Ruben- Voorhees Hall, Rutgers University, New rary sculpture byDavid Wells, caIIed Mega- stein, Sandi Fellman, Helen Wallis, Mary Brunswick, NJ 08903. Deadline 1 Septem- gleaners, on view in City Ha11 Park for six Beth Edelson, Joan Lyons, Nancy Flynn, ber 1982 for submission for fourth issue. months; View for the Catenary Curve, by Barbara Crane, Bea Nettles, Olivia Parker ALTERNATIVE TRADITIONS IN THE Alan Finkel on the Brooklyn waterfront at and Joan Myers, among others. Quiver is Empire Fulton Ferry State Park; a new kine- CONTEMPORARY ARTS. Project at Uni- available from the VSW Bookshop, the versity of lowa. Includes book art, mail art, tic sculpture by George Rickey, 'at the Book Bus, and ther Tyler School of Art in performance and video art, concept art, new entrance to Central Park, 5th Avenue and Philadelphia. . . The Washington Review's music and new visual literature. Central Sixtieth Street; and a newly completed art issue, Volume 7, no. 2 measures 16 repository for donations from artists, insti- wall painting by George Moore for the inches by 24 feet. This band of paper, tutes and private collectors. Central clearing emergency room at Lutheran Medical accordion-folded into panels, displays fresh house, maintaining catalogs of all incoming Center. and original work by Kevin Osborn, Lise material, responsible for selection and soli- citation of available art works and archival Gladstone, Alec Dann, Julie Lea, Michael Susan Keiser, art student at Cooper material, photodocumentation of unique Reidy, Lee Haner, H. 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