Seems that the Bostonians have fallen short across a speaker. As the sound pulses vibrate co-ops. About 180 artists were in the cata- of their goal of $5 million to keep Gilbert the elastic skin of the speaker, the mirrors log and 50 were in the show, Stuart's famous portraits of George and reflQt the motion, as colored light patterns, In September 1979, Artists' Choice held Martha Washington in the city, but the out- onto a large surface such as a wall in perfect shows in six well-known 57th Street gal- come has not been determined, and it does time to the music. leries: Marlborough, Komblee, Frumkin, not necessarily mean that the paintings Dintenfass, Brooke Alexander and Fisch- would be sold to the National Portrait Gal- The Whitney Museum recently showed bach, with splendid cooperation from the lery in Washington. Attempts are being "Steam Screens," a film installation by Stan gallery owners. Now, ACM is headed by made to negotiate a lower price with the VanDerBeek and Joan Brigham-a series of Robert Godfrey, a 12-member board of Boston Athenaeum, the private library that computer-generated images projected onto artists, a board of trustees, and a desire to agreed to sell the works to the NPG for 5 moving waves of live steam. Pressurized find a space, possibly rent-free, million. steam-1,000 pounds a square inch-was piped into the sculpture garden to make MURALS the steam waves. Brilliantly colored images, projected on the vapor, were captured by The lost fresco by Leonardo da Vinci The S.E.M. Ensemble, founded and directed droplets of steam. As the rising steam moves seems to have been found through the by Petr Kotik, has performed throughout through the streams of projected light, the latest scientific techniques by a group of Europe and recently at the Albright-Knox filmed images form and re-form. American and Italiin experts. Art Gallery. They have premiered a work called Explorations in the Geometry of NEW YORK CITY The frescoes of Diego Rivera in the Thinking for voices alone, a cycle of pieces Detroit Institute of Arts are at the center written on texts by R. Buckminster Fuller The two marble lions in front of the New of a controversy. In October, the city's from his book Synergetics. The group York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and Arts Commission voted to drill a hole in the also performs work by Phill Niblock and 42nd St, broke their 68-year silence recently middle of the court floor and put a stairway Jackson MacLow, as well as John Cage and by roaring out a greeting during the Christ- to the museum's lower level. But 105 of La Monte Young. mas season. Patience and Fortitude in this the museum's 265 employeesjoined a petiti- way thanked New Yorkers who have sup- tion drive to protest the plan, fearing that The Nova Convention, with Laurie Ander- ported the NYPL with contributions. the construction could damage the irreplace- son, WimS. Burroughs, John Cage, Allen able murals, which depict life on the assem- Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Brion Queens Museum is preparing for an exhi- bly line at the Ford Motor Company's Gysin, Les Levine, etc. is ia new record pro- bition on the 1939 WorId's Fair next June. sprawling Rouge complex. duced by Giomo Poetry Systems Records. Included will be catalogs, brochures, maga- Headed by a professor who fears that the This twodisk anthology commemorates zines, little plastic Heinz pickles, souvenirs, vibrations may destroy the murals, the head a Nova Convention designed to honor Wil- one of the fist RCA television sets, an of the Institute says that 'The Rivera Court liam Burroughs, with poetry, prose, rock AT & T Voder, a machine which synthe- was never designed for contemplation." and serious musical avant-gardism intro- sized human speech, animal noises and Rivera's revolutionary realism now has be duced. Available in New York City and other sounds. Also there will be the Harn- come more sentimental than radical, and other artists'bookshops. mond Novachord, the first electric organ. "what was once attacked as political fire The World's Fair Show will be a celebration ends up being defended, coolly and nos- Phi Niblock has opened his Experimental of the fair's 40th anniversary. talgically, as a monument." (NY TIMES) Intermedia Foundation loft in Centre Street to experimental composers to display their New York City's Art Commission is doing The Fall 1979 issue of National Murals wares in pleasant, unpressured surroundings. battle over what colors the city's bridges Network Community Newsletter, packed He also composes his own music and to the should be-from battleship gray to primary full of news and reviews, includes a peti- films he also makes, making an interesting colors. One group feels it is too costly to tion to save the Rincon Annex (Post Office) and focused performance. paint the bridges different colors; the other murals executed by the late Anton KeIreger group thinks that the city's bridges are truly by proposing landmark status of the Rincon A physicist named Jim Kuzman has con- works of art and deserve an enhancement of Annex, thus creating a holding action for structed a display for the Boston Museum of their beauty in color. In the middle is Ma- two years. There is enough news in this Science, called 'Visible Music." It makes yor Koch who excuses himself from this issue to enlighten anyone. There is enough every note in the humanly audible frequen- battle by saying that he is "a little color- about the destruction of murals to rile any cy range, except a few low and very high blind," and he is willing to leave the deci- art-oriented person. For those who wish to notes, visible. Each note is shown for its sion up to those who know more about help and to receive the Newsletter, write to duration as a column of colored light with colors. With more than 1,300 bridges, one Murals Newsletter, Box 40-383, San Fran- its degree of loudness displayed as more of doesn't know how much of a rainbow will cisco, CA 94140. the column is lighted. Kuzma used twelve dazzle the traveler the next time he or she colors of the visible spectrum to identify enters the Big Apple. SCIENCE 81TECHNOLOGY the notes of the twelve-tone scale, repeated across the display. The sequence of colors Artists' Choice Museum is a new museum Scientists at Columbia University have re- are harmonious when the musical tones are founded by Paul Georges and a group of cently performed experiments to under- harmonious, so one can see harmonies- New York artists as a forum for artists stand normal color perception. and the dissonances-clearly. whose work is rooted in realist, narrative or Another inventor, Leon Wortman, has cre- figurative tradition. In order to break muse- RCA Corporation will introduce in 1981 ated a combination of light beam and music um barriers, this group met over a period its SelectaViston videodisk system, compe- which he calls "Music Vision." He shines a of 10 years and finally decided to establish ting with the videodisk system developed by MCA Inc. and N.V. Philips of the Nether- light beam through a revolving color wheel a museum. They fist held an exhibition in lands. Philips uses a low-powered laser to onto mirrors mounted on elastic "skin" four SoHo galleries in 1976-co-ops or near "read" the video and audio infohatidn on graphic Books in Catalogue 45. Write to audio work in the arts. The catalog will con- the platinum-colored reflective disk spinning him at So. Woodstock, CT 06267. $6.00 tain performance art, new music, new wave, at 1,800 revolutions a minute. By contrast, text-sound and sound art available on re- RCA uses the more conventional phono- East Germany for the first time in 30 oords, cassettes, tape, film, video tape and graph technology, a grooved disk tums at yws is releasing its archives of nearly 2 mil- paper. 450 revolutions a minute, played with a lion historical snapshots, many of them While the primary concern of the catalog diamond stylus. unique and a large praportion unpublished is distribution, the work need not be for this century. Among them are frontline sale. If you have produced historical, limited ARCHITECTURE photographs from the German assault on edition, or one-of-a-kind material, please Paris in 1871 and some highly unflattering send in the information for inclusion. 9H will be a journal consisting largely of views of Britain's Victorian royalty. The The catalog will include a worldwide index translations of architectural texts and docu- collection begins in the '1860s and will be of cultural institutions specializing in the ments previously unavailable in English. Plan- available for purchase this month. presentation of audio work and a list of re- ned to include design projects, current re- The state-mn ADN news agency'has pic- tail outlets that carry this material. search papers and polemical articles original- tures of Bismarck from 1865, as well as Individuals, galleries, museums, book- ly written in English. 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