One of the most interesting factors in being held at seven different locations. Over specifically for this setting. The whole Kennedy campaign for nomination to fifty artists will be presenting live works affair was sponsored by ~e/m~Martin. represent the Democratic Party in the during Part 11 of Public Spirit, Live Art/L.A, presidential campaign was to have over the fint The City of Atlanta Department of Cul- 20 important American artists create the first performance art festival emphasi- tural Affairs has worked with the U.S. Dept. original prints which were each hand zing Los Angeles artists. Part I occurred in of Transportation to install works of art in pulled and individually signed and May. the new Atlanta Airport. numbered by the artist. Included Sponsored by the Highland Art Agents From 480 individual applications, the were prints by Herb Aach, Ilya Bolo- and LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Ex- semifinals included 80, of which 14 were towsky, Nassos Daphnis, Gordon Hart, hibitions, Public Spirit includes Allan Ka- invited to compose installation proposals Nicholas Krushenick, Robert Rausch- prow, xhe Kipper Kids, Kim Jones, Chris for a particular site. The works are limited enberg, Donald Saff, Les Levine, Robert Burden, Barbara Smith, Bob & Bob, Alexis to two dimensions. Morris, Lowell Nesbitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Smith, Nancy Buchana, Linda Nishio, Su- Included are Stephen Antonakos, Margaret Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and others. zanne Lacy, Carl Stone, Rachel Rosenthaf, Koscielny, Michael Siede, David Hammons, A1 Hansen, and many more. Houston Conwill, Richard Smith, Lynda Benglis, Sam Gilliam, Benny Andrews, Cur- PHOTOGRAPHY tis Patterson, Santo Bruno, Napoleon Jones- TV Talk is the newsletter offered by the Henderson, Andy Nasisse and Phyllis Artists' Post Production Studio at Long The Photographers Gallery London has now Thompson. Beach Museum of Art, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd., opened a Center for International Photogra- This is the world's largest air terminal in Long Beach, CA 90803. News abour na- phy at 5 Great Newport St., London WC2, which there is a $450,000 collection of tional, international and regional competi- England. There are now 3 exhibition gal- contemporary art. Nearly 70 million tions, as well as grants is available in this leries, a lecture theater, the bookshop with travelers annually will view the works of newsletter. over 500 titles, the print room, and a refe- these 14 artists. The works were funded rence library. by a grant from the U.S.Department of Vitape distribution is a recent collabora- Transportation, matched by a grant tion between five independent video produ- A reported world-record price for a single from Atlanta airport revenue bonds and cers to self-distribute their works. The five photo was established recently with the sale a donation from the airlines. In addition, artists want to provide a direct service be- of a large mural-sized print of Ansel Adams' the NEA contributed $50,000 to the pro- tween prospective programmers and them- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. A San ject, all with the help of Joan Mondale. selves. Installations, performances, commis- Francisco businessman bought the print for sioned productions and lectures are also $46,000. Four of New York City's most prominent available in addition to individual tapes. civic groups, the Municipal Art Society, the Included are Susan Britton, Rodney The story of Deborah Spray and the Stack Architectural League, the New York chapter Werden, Colin Campbell, Clive Robert- O'Wheat photos by Les Krims has been of the American Institute of Architects and son and Lisa Steele. Write to V/tape discussed at length in American Libraries the Parks Council have taken up residence distribution, 136 Simcoe St., third floor, by Susan Spaeth Cherry in the July/August in one of New York's greatest 19th century Toronto M5H 3G4, Canada. issue. What is interesting is the struggle landmarks, the Villard Houses. between librarians' personal convictions PERFORMANCE and the principles of intellectual freedom. Two stone bas-relief sculptures high on the facade of the Bonwit Teller Building In October in Montreal, there will be Per REGIONAL NEWS in New York City, which was under fomzance et Multidisciplinan'te: Postmoder demolition on Fifth Avenue, were smashed nisme, a colloquium on the theory and prac- by jackhammers in June on the orders of tice of contemporary art with Bruce Barber, Recently at Columbia College in Chicago, a real estate developer. Benjamin Buchloh, Germano Celant, Regina the Peace Mural done by Mark Rogovin and The panels were to have been installed Cornwell, Peggy Gale, Dan Graham, and Barbara Browne of the Public Art Workshop in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's De- many others. There will be installations, was dedicated. This launches a national partment of 20th Century Art. The develo- performances and films by Abramovic/Ulay, Peace Museum, a Chicago-based center for per, who had agreed to give the panels to Laurie Anderson, Colin Campbell, Dan Gra- the celebration of life, a haven for the crea- the Met if the cost of removing them did ham, Joan La Barbara, Yvonne Rainer, Tom tive expression of the vision for peace. not prove prohibitive, found from apprai- Sherman, Bob Wilson and others. For in- sers that they were "without artistic merit" formation, contact Parachute, Colloque Ten of America's leading emerging artists, and would have cost more to remove than Performance, c.p. 730 , succ. N, Montreal, including Dara Birnbaum, Eric Lee they were worth. The panels, according Quebec, Canada H3X 2N4. Bowman, Susan Dallas-Swann, Brian Eno, to Robert Miller, owner of the Robert Maren Hassinger, Jenny Holzer, Senga Nen- Miller Gallery just across the street, Performance & installations will be held gudi, Christy Rupp, Vision Stations and were of rare quality and can never be made at the Paris Biennale, .Sept. 20- 3 November Randy Williams, are taking over Grand again. at A. R. C. and the Centre Pompidou. Central Station's Waiting Room for an Invitation Only showing of their works. Some customers at a Bank of Tokyo The whole month of October in Los A Blue-Ribbon Panel selected them to office in New York City said they felt Angeles will be dedicated to the First Los create installation pieces, video presen- uncomfortable with Isamu Noguchi's 1,600 Angeles Performance Art Festival, which is tations and sculptural environments pound suclpture hanging overhead "like a guillotine." So the bank cut the sculpture phers in the Executive Mansion would have The Museum has also been pledged $1 down, chopped it up and stuck it in a ware- been viewed by perhaps 15,000 schoolchil- million by the Atlantic Richfield Founda- house. dren passing through on public tours if he tion. The sculpture was made of aluminum had not banned them. and cost $60,00O..A bank spokesman said In protest, 21 of the 37 photographers Noguchi was not told of the decision be- removed their works. The governor and cause "the sculpture is the property of the his wife maintain that the governor's The new Wells Fargo Building under con- bank." Noguchi agreed that he had no re- mansion is also their home, and they re- struction at Fifth and Flower in downtown course. serve the prerogative as a family to select Los Angeles will have five large scale works items suitable for their home. of art by five ranking contemporary Ameri- Art New York will open with a Fluxus can artists such as Mark DiSuvero and Bruce Banquet-Buffet des Chef to benefit artists A mural depicting the annual spring Nauman from California, New Yorkers who might visit New York and require ser- water festival of the Dai ethnic minority Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and vices of the Fund. Included in in the southwest, includes two nude women Michael Heizer. as of this date are Jean Dupuy, Ayo, Robert bathers among irs hundred figures. * The GSA's Art-in-Architecture Program Filliou, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, This mural, dedicated along wirh the new transfers the maquettes, paintings and dra- Emmett Williams, Bob Watts, La Monte airport in Peking, generated acclaim due to wings made as proposals to the National the liberalization and progress after the Collection of Fine Arts from time to time. * Recently, the Washington Memorial downfall of the Gang of Four. The first 97 went there including works by Arch vanished under a snowy veil of Yuan, the artist, has now had many prob- Nevelson, Stella, Richey, Calder, and Di 8,000 yards of white Dacron gauze that lems, and an immediate solution has been a Suvero. A catalog of this group may be was strung and wrapped and secured by floor-length curtain as a temporary remedy, had from the NCFA, Washington,DC 20560. 20 volunteers under the direction of covering only the portion containing the walkie-talkie toting artist, Francis Hines. nudes. Yuan has also been asked to change GOVERNMENT FUNDING & THE ARTS He called it a fabric sculpture. the painting, but he refused citing that China would be made the butt of interna- Kingsley Amis, a British writer, has recently 0 Budget cuts previously assigned to the tional ridicule. Yet he has been promoted written an article on the Op-Ed page of the arts allocation for the city of New York to a teaching post in the prestigious Central New York Times entitled, "Government were restored and in fact, the 1980-81 Academy of Fine Arts in Peking and has Shouldn't Fund the Arts." This contro- budget for the Department of Cultural been offered the chance to paint a mural in versial article appeared on 31 August 1980. Affairs was increased. a new hotel. But no more nudes, he has The mainstay of the article seems to convey toid his friends.