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American children today consider art less NEW YORK CITY The Gaglione Brothers was performed by important than students in the early 1970s, Group Rockola at La Mamelle in San Fran- according to a recent study. Yet more stu- Open Storage Space at 214 Lafayette St. in cisco on 11 and 12 December. . dents between 9 and 13 visit art museums SoHo is a new storage space opened by Max A Decade of Women's Perfomzance Art, today than did youngsters in the mid-1970% Protetch for exhibiting large-scale environ- mental work as well as diminutive architec- a major documentary exhibition that sur- COPY ART tural models. He shows work by Vito Ac- veys for the first time the unique contribu- conci, Scott Burton, Michael Graves, among tion of in defining and deve- Dina Dar will show color Xerox prints at the loping during the 1970's others. Jewish Museum from 19 January through is being shown at Mandeville Center, East 14 March. The series, "Between Holy and The will move to Room, UCSD in La Jolla, 21 January thru Profane," explores the tension between high interim space in its new west and north 11 February. The exhibition includes work technology and human emotion. Dar is a wings in January and in February, with a by , Eleanor Antin, Joan Los Angeles artist who has exhibited in the temporary entrance at 18 West 54th St. Jonas, Alison Knowles, to Jill Scott, Bonnie Electroworks exhibition from George East- All current shows are closed, part of the Sherk, Faith Wilding and Martha Wilson. man House. permanent collection will be installed and For more information about the exhibition Copycat Show, an exhibition of photo- viewable in March, and by the end of and renting it for possible exhibition else copy art juried by Lucy R. Lippard and March, a normal exhibition program will where, contact Umbrella Associates. resume, with a major show of Giorgio de Lowery Sims is showing at Franklin Furnace There is a Multi-Media Artists' Space in chirico. from 6 January through 6 February. Osaka which is available for performances, The wild and wonderful 1982 Gallery "Boomerang," an elegant sculpture of films, video, etc. One can rent the space for 1331 Xerography Calendar, with graphics sky-gray steel pipes and rods, has canti- visual needs. Write to Tachyon, Ohmori by Exene is available from M, Hyatt in San- levered off a corner on the 32nd floor of Toyohito, 32 Yokobori3, Higashi-ku, Osaka, ta Monica. See the classified ads in this the old McGraw-Hill Building between 8th Japan. issue. and 9th Avenues in Manhattan. The work was done by Owen Morrel. VIDEO Stephanie Weber had a show of her mixed Video 81 (Vol. 2, no. 1) covers articles by media prints at the Oakland Museum from Ruckus Manhattan, the raucous walk- John Sanborn,Willoughby Sharp, Tony La- 24 November to 24 January 1982. She uses in cartoon sculpture of downtown New bat, Chip Lord, a complete catalog of the collaged Xerox in her large-size beautiful York City, is now available for viewing 1981 San Francisco International Video prints. in the lobby of Burlington House, 1345 Festival, and much much more. There are Weber, a Bav Area artist. is also showing- Avenu,e of the Americas at West 54th St. artists' pages, as well as regular columns. A Xerography/Transformed, a new body of through March. bargain for this large-size tabloid. Available work at the Nelson Gallery, University of PERFORMANCE for $10 for three issues a year from Video California, Davis. 80, 229 Cortland St., San Francisco, CA Charlotte Brown, using her method of Xn an article of statements by artists and 94110. electrostatic transfer through the 3M Color- literati at the end of 1981 to summarize in-Color copy machine, is showing her "Ta- the year, Robert Motherwell pronounced Art and Artists: Art of the 801s,a ten-part pestries", recent works on paper until 27 these words: "There is an increasing ten- series featuring interviews with thirteen out- February 1982 at Getler/Pall in New York dency for painting and sculpture, and the standing professionals of the international City. museums that show them, to move toward art world, began broadcast on KPBS-TV 15 performance art, primitive forms of theater, in San Diego. At an alternative space in San Francisco, to become theatrical rather than keeping the The series shows artists in conversation "The Schlock of the New Color Xerox Kul- integrity of the brush, the chisel and the with artist Joyce Cutler Shaw, including ture" was shown in December, featuring welding torch. What I wuld most hope is , , Judith work by Carl Heward, Tom Patrick, Helen that Painting and Sculpture remain them- Hoffberg, Roland Reiss, Anna Banana and Holt, Art Foot, Eleanor Kent, and others selves and hold their own line rather than Bill Gaglione, Eudora Moore, Michaelangelo from the greater San Francisco area. becoming theatrical events, , a Pistoletto, Suzi Gablik, Harold Cohen, Mari- MURALS form of show biz." lyn Levine, Llyn Foulkes and Helen Esco- Communzty Murals for Fall 1981 features bedo. The series was sponsored by San On the anniversary of the assassination of recent mural paintings in Nicaragua, some Diego State University, University of Cali- John F. Kennedy, orchestra- by the Bragada Orlando Letelier, a group of fornia Irvine, California State University, ted a performance called "Maybe the Shor- Chilean exiles now living in the U.S., and Long Beach, the Learning Resource Cen- test Parade," on Seventh Street in Washing- others. In addition, there are reports about ter, San Diego State University and the ton, DC under the auspices of the Washing- murals in West Germany, Brussels, Mexico TV station itself, Murals of Aztlan, and much more. Subscribe ton Project for the Arts. by sending a $10 donation to Community The International Network for the Arts Muralists' Magazine, P.O. Box 40383, San Three performance art pieces by Dick (INFA) has been investigating new direc- Francisco, CA 94140. Higgins done previously in 1960 in New tions for video in the arts and education in York City influencing the development of the U.S. and abroad since 1976. INFA's "Sunset Park", a wall painting by George the movement in the U.S. were 1981-82 program includes video workshops Moore for the emergency services area at recreated on Sunday, 10 January, at the at Carnegie-Mellon University, SUNYPur- Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, was Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The dedicated on 16 December 1981. The pro- chase, Tulane University, Ecole Superieure 3 pieces were Celestials, Five Movements/ ject was made possible through grants from des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, National Film Five Days/Tuo People, and Stacked Deck. Con Edison, Pintchik Paints, the Foot Cen- School in Lodz, Poland, and the Cleveland Allan Kaprow devised the sets, Pauline ter and private individuals, as well as the Institute of Art. A two-way student satellite Oliveros created a new score for the opera, NEA and the New York State Council workshop and telecast between Philadelphia Stacked Deck, and Jerry Benjamin directed on the Arts. College of Art and the Minneapolis College the performances. of Art and Design is slated for June 1982. For more information, write tb Brad Rod- sioned mural from Katherine Porter, be I begin this discussion of Federal support ney, Kristen Shone, Public Interest Pub- cause Ms. Porter had written references to for the arts and humanities by acknowled- lic Relations, 225 West 34th St., New York, political activists and causes into the mural's ging that I labor at a certain disadvantage in NY 10001. framing tiles. "Wounded Knee" included making even a restricted case for such expen- Video Networks, the Bay Area Video Coa- the names of I. F. Stone, Cesar Chavez, Paul ditures. The arpmentum ad hominem is lition Monthly, for January 1982 includes Robeson, Dorothy Day, Emma Goldman, against me from the character of the likely the National Exhibition Directory, to indi- George Jackson, and the Rev. Martin Luther recipients of such largesse. I must concede cate screening opportunities for video. In King Jr. that in general artists and humanists me strict alphabetical order by name of space, At the same time, supposedly the bust of diffiult and in some ways unpleasant we get a complete address, phone number, George Moscone by Robert Arneson was people. contact, frequency, formats, type of work also dedicated, but alas, so much controver- LEONARD0 & THE LAST SUPPER shown procedures for submission, type of sy ensued because of the sculpture, that it payments, average audience size, how far remained behind a red shroud and eventu- The great fresco of Leonardo da Vinci in in advance to book, etc. A most important ally was stored in a safe away from the buil- Milano is now being restored carefully and contribution. ding. The pedestal's design included an out- with the latest techniques, but a symposium For more information, write to BAVC, line of Moscone's body next to a .38-calibre will be held to restore the center and left 1111 17th St., San Francisco, CA 94107. revolver, bloodlike splatters of glaze and a parts. The restoration being done now is yellow depiction of a "Twinkie." These are the fust to be preceded by thorough sci- The Sixth Atlanta Independent Film and references to Moscone's assassination. entific examination of the surface. It will Video Festival will take place 14 - 18 April Since the dedication, the statue remains in take several years. at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. a vault, while the commissioners voted to A factory in China,the Yaxin Silk Weaving Deadline for applications to the Festival is reject the work and to demand Arneson re- 6 March 1982. 16mm film and % and 314 Factory, has begun to mass-produce for the turn the $18,500 down payment he received American market synthetic velveteen tapes- inch video tape. Fees are $7 for works un- from the city. der 30 minutes, $10 for works 30 minutes tries in a choice or large or small of The Last Meanwhile, George Segal's sculptural grou- Supper.. or longer, and $20 for works entered by dis- ping, "Gay Liberation," which consists of tributors. Cash and purchase prizes. Writ two standing men, one with his arm around MUSEUM NEWS Write to Image Film/Video Center, 972 the other's shoulder, and two women seated Peachtree St., Suite 213, Atlanta, GA 30309 on a park bench, one with her hand resting TWOnew museums are: The Peace Museum in Chicago at 364 W. ARTJNew York, a video magazine on art, on the other's leg was com- Erie St. The purpose is to "provide through has now issued its list of videotapes com- missioned by a private foundation, with two the arts a center for discussion and debate pleted in 1981. Write to them at 148 casts, one of which will be placed in Sheri- on how to build peace in our lives and in Greene St., New York, NY 10012. dan Square in New York , and the other has our time." Mark Rogovin, the Chicago mu- Muntadas showed hi's Media Landscape been considered by Los Angeles, after a pri- vate foundation has offered it to the city for ralist, is the museum's director and origina- at the Addison Gallery of American Art, tor. The first exhibition includes works by Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. placement in a very public area. The latest story is that the Friends of Harvey Milk 170 artists. Open to the public Tuesdays Michael Smith will have an installation have raised $150,000 to have the grouping In Neuilly, France, a Chilean million- featuring a videotape at the Whitney Mu- placed in Harvey Milk Square in San Fran- aire has established the Museum of Women, seum of American Art from 19 February cisco. barely outside Paris and just a four-stop through 11 March. "Mike" installs cable What this stresses is that with the flou- Metro ride from the Champs-Elysees. The TV in his house and suddenly finds himself rishing of public art in public places, those collection was made over a 40-year period on television. The set of Mike's living room, public sculptures with too much content to glorify womanhood. The address is 12 in which the videotape was produced, will have created too much controversy to be rue de Centre, Neuilly, and it is open six be recreated in the Film/Video Gallery, placed in public places, unprotected from afternoons a week. where viewers can watch the tape on Mike's jeers, hoots, discussion, no longer in the In England, the director of the British TV set. temple called museum. Museum has stated that unless govern- ARCHITECTURE ART 81 GOVERNMENT ment grants are boosted, the museum may have to close altogether in two years. Each Ada Louise Huxtable, winner of the coveted The new head of the National Endowment of the other galleries have announced that MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, is for the Arts says the organization will start they will have to reduce the opening to leaving the Nevr York Times. She was the efforts to increase , funding for the arts only a small number of rooms. Entrance first full-time architecture critic in an from private sources rather than giving charges have been discussed, or a hunt American newspaper. grants. Frank Hodsell says he advocates a for commercial sponsors. To the relief "seeding role" for the NEA. "It's like being of all, an 8 percent rise in government Columbia University's School of Architec- a gardener, putting a little fertilizer in the grants for 1982-83 was announced on 4 ture is 100 years old, and to commemorate field and seeing if the flowers bloom, bea- December, but the Victoria and Albert this event, an exhibition has been mounted ring in mind that with too much fertilizer, Museum still feels the pinch. titled "The Making of an Architect, 1881- the flower will die." This is the kind of 1981: Columbia University in the City of philosophy the NEA will be adopting under The Smithsonian Institution will start New York," held at the National Academy of his "bully pulpit, to encourage greater ap- construction on an elaborate expansion of Design through 15 January. preciation and support of the arts." its many museums along the Mall. Two new buildings for the Museum of African ART 81 CONTROVERSY M. E. Bradford, a candidate for the head of the National Endowment for the Huma- Art and a proposed Center for Eastern When San Francisco dedicated its $126 nities but who was eventually passed over Art will be built. million George Moscone Convention Center by President Reagan, recently said in an arti- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently, it had already rejected a commis- cle: acquired a gift of 60 major works of early Chinese painting and calligraphy, worth Museum in Harlem, to regain possession of Poetry, prose and good graphics. Number 2, $18 million, from the collection of John his collection of 125,000 prints, negatives, much larger, has fine collaged illustrations, M. Crawford, Jr. plates, and transparencies, now held by the good photos and lots of avant-garde writing museum. from Michigan. Issue Number 2 has a slick The Oakland Museum and the Oakland All he got was "carfare, a suit and a tur- cover, now considers itself the new beat Auditorium will be sold to private inves- key." No compensation came to him, and journal of the arts, and is handsomely pro- tors, who will then lease the facilities back during the last 12 years he has had to re- duced. to the city. The transaction involves $52 ceive public and private charitable aid. Back issues are available only for Numbers million. The city will have the right r. 1 and 3. Subscriptions for three issues are to repurchase the museum 30 years later. Artists' Photographs, presently being $9.00 from Neither/Nor Press, Box 8043, exhibited at Crown Point Gallery in Oak- Ann Arbor, MI 48107. The group that pro- The Institute of Museum Services has land, California, is documented as a boxed duces this little mag also has a regular pro- awarded Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. a exhibition catalog in Vision 5, the periodi- gram on Ann Arbor Community Access grant in the amount of $11,907,which will cal published by Crown Point Press for Television, which includes experimental be used to purchase flat storage files, stan- $15.00 plus $1 shipping and California sales music, literature and the arts. dard Ties and hire a consultant to advise the tax if applicable. Archive on a climatic control. In addition, Included are photos by /Marina Cahiers Loques is a new semiannual jour- Franklin Furnace will go ahead with plans Abramovic, , Robert Adrian, nal including 3 separate sections, each rea- to rent the basement in the loft building Larry Bell,Christo, Joel Fisher, , lized by a different author/artist, always to house the archives and thus increase Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Tom Marioni, with 12 pages and a cover: visual poetry, vi- space for offices and exhibitions. Franklin Muntadas, Nannucci, Oppenheim, sual and multimedia, pages seen before Furnace is the largest publicly funded col- Pistoletto, Ruscha, Scanga, Tuttle, Vostell being read, word-objects to manipulate, etc. lection of artists' books in the world. It is and many more. Write to Crown Point Press, In October, the artists were Claude Pelieu- located at 112 Franklin Street, New York, 1555 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA Washburn, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Ju- NY 10013. 94612. lien Blaine. For more information, write to In Seattle, the Center on Contemporary Association Loques, 23 rue Georges Clemen- The California Museum of Photography, ceau, 92170 Vanves, France. Each issue is Art, organized to serve as a catalyst and fo- University of California, Riverside has rum for the advancement and understanding 20 francs, subscription is 100 francs for 6 formed a Friends of the Museum, which also issues. of contemporary art, is sponsoring a series entitles members to the new CMP Bulletin, of installations by the internationally ac- a bimonthly journal which will examine Charteng is a new literary category which claimed artist, James Turrell, who uses light little-known aspects of the museum's hol- replaces poetry-in keeping with Leaves of as both the subject and medium of his art. dings, as well as serve as catalogs for exhi- Grass by Whitman, self-published in 1855. Turrell will open a series of installations bitions. $25 donation for membership, It is now channeled through a news- in the Lippy Building in Pioneer Square in payable to UCRF, California Museum of letter called Metamorphosis, in which artists Seattle, which will use incandescent or Photography, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA and writers converse, discuss, ask questions, ambient light. With more than 3,000 square 92521. trying to define this challenge to poetry, an feet of floor space and 10,000 square feet intellectual activity. We think intermediaists of wallboard, the works will occupy the NEW PERtODlCALS would be most interested in this newsletter, Lippy Building until 28 July 1982. CMP Bulletin is the journal of the California in which Dick Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, This premiere exhibition of COCA is indeed Museum of Photography, University of Cali- and others are cited as sources. Write to a very exciting event, which has taken two fornia, Riverside. The journal will highlight Tom Fallon, Charteng Workshop, 226 Lin- years to realize. For more information, exhibitions, holdings and research. den St., Rumford, ME 04276 for more in- write to COCA, P.O. Box 12756, Seattle, The first issue serves as a catalog to the formation. 6 issues for $1. This is the most WA 98111. current exhibit of contemporary photo- powerful creative statement Umbrella has PHOTOGRAPHY graphy by Lee Friedlander. The second issue received in a long time. Food for thought, will be devoted to the Keystone-Mast collec- creative power, reason for being. Modem Photography for January 1982 has tion of stereographic prints and negatives, an article about Color Slide and Photograph Slug: The Magazine of Excess Images is including an introduction to stereo photo- Preservation. Photo Communique for Win- another artist's periodical in which artists, graphy and an index to the collection. Do- ter 198112 also has a resume of the results designers and writers can do what they wish. nations to the Friends of the Museum are of experiments in this regard. Published whenever possible by William Fa- $25 per year and the address is listed above, rancz and friends, the magazine is spiral- A new radio show, Talking Pictures, star- under photography. bound and includes mostly Xeroxed col- ted in August 1981 featuring Sean Callahan, lages, drawings, etc. Works by Tod Jorgen- editor of Amen'can Photogapher. The show AR Textreme: Independent Magazine of Art sen, Sara Gormley Plass and Farancz appear is broadcast four times daily on Saturday & begins in Fall/Winter 1981-82 with its first in this premiere issue. Price must be an Sunday in 90- to 120-second vignettes. The semi-annual issue. Published by Waisnis at RFD Route 32, Richmond , NH 03470, object, but cannot find out how much. material taken from American Photographer Write to them at 58 West 83rd St., New is for the photo-enthusiast and general lis- AR Textreme includes contributions by artists from Malevitch to Agnes Denes, dis- York, NY 10024 for more information. tener. Broadcast across the U.S. on 9 radio Available at Printed Matter. stations, seven CBS-owned AM stations and cussion of trends in art to art periodicals, two affiliates of the CBS Radio Network. Carlo Pittore and Ken Brown, and much Appearances: Volume 1, Number 4 is out (Photo Communique) more. $5.00 per year, $7.00 foreign. $2.50 with a new editor. $2.00. Edited by Ro- for the current issue prepaid. bert Witz, this new issue is associated with James Van Der Zee, the renowned 95- Joe Lewis of Fashion Moda, who is the year-old photographer who with his Beatniks from Space, a journal of new beat Executive Editor. Included are literary, camera chronicled life in Harlem for writings, was first issued in Summer 1980 as visual and intermedia works by artists more than 60 years, is suing the Studio a little magazine from Ann Arbor, Michigan. well-known and some less known, inclu- ding John Evans, Dotty Attie, David also a Forum on Performance Art, chaired 1982 Gallery 1331 Xerography Calendar by Wells, Joe Lewis, Stewart Wilson, and many by Moira Roth, with many other partici- M. Hyat? with artwork and lettering by more. 68 packed-full pages. Subscriptions pants. $3.50 from San Francisco. . . . OP Exene of the rock band X, available from M. are $5.00 for 3 issues from Robert Witz, for Winter 1981 covers the letter H, a great Hyatt, 721 Pine, Santa Monica, CA 90405. 165 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001. multimedia tabloid from Lost Music Net- $5.00 postage paid, first class. NeWRITE, the magazine of imaginations, work in Olympia, Washington. . . . Profde is self-published, a constantly evolving (vol. 1, no. 6) is dedicated to Pat Steir. $2 8 Color Stereo Cards by Surrealist Painter "alternative entertainment" that uses satire, from the School of the Art Institute of Bradley Lastname, whose collage work is in prose, poetry, fantasy and experimental Chicago. . . . Studio International has the tradition of Prevert, Erro, and Trouille. works (graphic and written) to show how reappeared with Number 99112 dedicated Bizarre imagery not for the faint of heart. the English language is changing-and could to "Artists' Thoughts on the Seventies in Send $15.00 to Bradley Lastname, 5240 So. change. The "irregular quarterly" comes out Words and Pictures", edited by Jasia Rei- lngleside Ave., Chicago, IL 60615. Same whenever Robert Allen Miltenberg can af- chardt. Each issue (if it really is quarterly) day shipping by insured mail. ford to publish. Starting with a small opera- costs 5 pounds or $10, and the magazine tion, it now has coated stock cover, and the wiU be a quarterly, won't it Virginia? Sub- Bradley Lastname is proud as a pinhead to March issue will attempt to go completely scriptions are $45.00 from the Studio Trust, announce that the search for Bile Green coated stock with two or three colors as 25 Denmark St., London WC2H 8HJ. . . . mentioned 3 months ago is now over! The well. Wild and wonderful, NeWRITE is Rubberstmnpmadness (vol. 1, no. 5) is first synthesis of this new color has been available at Printed Matter, New Morning, packed full of goodies. . . . Upfront: PAD sent to the Bureau of Weights & Measures in Sohozat and Jaap Rietman in New York Documentation and Distribution in its Washington, DC (which has probably lost it City, as well as in Miami and Toronto. Sub- third issue covers politics and art and only by now). Hermetically sealed color swat- scriptions are now $7.00-single copies costs 50 cents. Write to PAD, Box 2064, ches of bile green are available on circles of range from $3 to $2. Grand Central Station, New York, NY 1/32 inch graph paper encased in a blister 10163. . . . JournaI from the Los Angeles pack for $2.00 from Bile Dadazine. 5240 ART READER Institute of Contemporary Art contains a South lngleside Ave., Chicago, I1 60615. Asked to comment on all this by a reporter Art & Text (Australia) for Summer 1981 reprint of L.A. Demystified by Peter Schjel- from station WLSD, the guerrealist replied: goes from an analysis of the Unicorn Tapes- dahl, which appeared originally in the ViI- "Who Needs Language? I'm high on Autism!- tries to Spider Woman and current erotic lage Voice, as well as an exhibition in print visual practice. . . Art Com 15 includes of both Southern and Northern California . AMERICAN HISTORY LESSONS is an an interview with Shigeko Kubota, a review artists. . . . DOC(K)S No. 35 for Autumn artist's book by Larry Walczak. It is printed of a performance art exchange, an interview 1981 is dedicated to Elementary Poetry in photo-offset and measures 8% x 10" and is with Chuck Stake and Buster Cleveland, the U.S.A. East and West, which includes available at $3.00 per copy from Walczak at mail art news, exhibitions, and publication 455 packed-solid pages of contributions by . 803 Park Ave. 4N, Hoboken, NJ 07030. review. $12 for four issues from Contem- artists, documentation of performances, porary Arts Press, P.O. Box 3123, San Fran- mail art, sound poets in France and much POST-R0MANCE;ARTISTS VALENTINES cisco 94119. . . . Art Journal for FaU 1981 more. Sumptuously produced for $20 is an exhibition of valentines created by ar- was dedicated to the Russian Avant-Garde ... or 100 francs from Le Moulin de Ventabren, tists such as Ray Johnson, Carl Andre, Elea- Art Papers for November-December 1981 is 13122 Ventabren, France. nor Antin, Keith Smith, Vernon Fisher, Mr. dedicated to Art in Mississippi. . . . ART- Mental, Ilene Segalove, and others. The ex- news for December 1981 covered Mailart, hibition is part of the Windows on White St. Bookart and Recordart and Tapeart with project sponsored by the Lower Manhattan coverage on a general level by Deborah C. CLASSIFIED ADS Cultural Council and will run through the Phillips (books), Ronny Cohen (mailart), month of February 1982 at 62 White St. The exhibition was organized by Larry Wal- and records and tapes (Peter Frank). . . . SCULPTURE GARDEN '82 WSSU NA- Artpolice for Winter 1981 is still just $1.00 TIONAL. Winston-SatBm State University czak and copies of the catalog are available and still made in the USA and still full of from him at $3.00 per copy postpaid. Or- National Sculpture Competition. No entry great graphics ($15 per year from 133 E. ders and inquiries to Larry Walczak, 803 fee. Purpose: to discover unestablished 25th St., Minneapolis,, MN 55404). . . Park Ave. 4N, Hoboken, NJ 07030. . black sculptors, but open to all professio- Artzien (Autumn 1981) is dedicated to the nal artists. Jury: Selma Burke, David Dris- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COPIER Fluxfest which was held at Enschede in kell, Richard Hunt. Purchase award. Sub- ARTISTS AND A PERIODICAL AND/OR September 1981 with the participation of mit: slides/photographs, resumes by 21 PERIODICAL FOLIO OF COPIER ART Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Giuseppe Chiari April 1982. Write to Mitzi Shewmake, Art now being organized. For more informa- and Eric Anderson. There is a transcript of a Department, Winston-Salem State Univer- tion, send SASE to Louise Neaderland, discussion by these four, accompanied by sity, Winston-Salem, NC 271 10. photos. Documentation of a work by James Bone Hollow Arts, 800 West End Ave., Lee Byars, a telecommunication by Bob New York, NY 10025. Adrian, video from Japan, etc. . . . New Per POST ART: ROUND HOLE POSTAGE CARL0 PITTORE EUFORICO wants fomzance (vol. 2,110. 3) includes work by PERFORATOR. :8 inch length of perfora- Italian Mail Artists to write to him before Susan Sontag, Moira Roth, and other parti- tion. Any straight line configuration. Call he leaves for Italy to stay for several months cipants in the West Coast Conference on or write to Zinc, 3435 Army St., 214, San in Terni from May through October 1982. Dance Criticism, which involved a round- Francisco, CA 94110. (415)821-3552. Write to Carlo Pittore Euforico, P.O. Box table on reviews and reviewing. Included is 1132 Stuy. Sta.. New York, NY 10009 USA. HONEST JOHN'S ADVICE TO THE GRANTLORN: Artistic Endeavors, 24 Emerson Place, Boston, MA 02114 offer a print cata- It is easier to get two grants than one, to raise $60,000 than log entitled From Piranesi to Picasso $6,000. for $3.00 and I)uncan, Mahler, and The natural tendency of foundations is to fund for failure, Friends for $2.00. to doom the projects they support by underfunding them on In addition, Artistic Endeavors is all levels. Therefore, if your real project is the modest a, do the only dealer in the New England area not request support for it: instead create a magnificent b that handles new Fine Art books in limi- ' ted editions, according to their director. which includes a, and when only a materializes, point to its Artists who make fine limited edition art success in requesting a yet-more grandiose b next time. books are welcome to write and talk about The more controversial the grant or program, the greater distribution via their gallery and bookstore. must be the discrepancy between it and its public name. This Please, no Xerox or rubber stamp books. can be expressed mathematically as: a plus b must equal a constant, where a is the actual controversiality of a given project and b is the allowable controversiality of its name. The corollary of the above is also true: the way to support NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION a simple, basic and rather conservative program is to give it a l QUIT provocative title. MA4LART The second corolllary of this is that no actual program I can't answer any more questions BESIDES should ever match its title-in all cases, the title will either I can't AFFORD it: be too bland or too controversial, if the program is to suc- NEW POSTAL RATES IN CANADA ceed. in Canada 17cents up to 30 cents -Honest John to USA 17 cents up to 35 cents to Europe etc. 35 cents up to 60 cents TIME SCHEDULE: other things to do. Meanwhile, Go Bananas! Anna Banana Vancouver, BC 3 January 1982

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