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 Charlotte Moorman 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 Los Angeles. 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. Suzanne Lacy 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 performance art. ~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 happenings 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 Museum of Modern Art 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.