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...when it held the “Stock Up” exhibit. For that show, the Glimchers asked their friends to host the artists who were being shown. Occasionally, however, they would splurge on a “judicious” risk—to tempt the famed sculptress Louise Nevelson into showing with them in Boston, they put her up in the Ritz...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping Pace For Forty Years | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...best offerings in 34 categories, including self-help and scifi. The prizes are broader than the venerable National Book Awards they replace, and the presentations will be made with more hoopla. Some wits have suggested that the new prize be called the Bookie. It was named instead after Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 80, who designed the plaque that goes to each winner, along with $1,000. How does she feel about joining Oscar, Tony and the rest? Says Nevelson: "That suits me fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 5, 1980 | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...people who turned out for a party honoring Louise Nevelson got a twofer. It was the famed sculptress's 80th birthday, and she was also being saluted by New York's Municipal Art Society as a champion of urban art. Nevelson steadfastly refused to blow out the 80 candles, saying, "Let them burn and burn and burn." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Leslie said that Jennie's niece, Clare Sheridan, who was Winston Churchill's only female cousin, was able to "battle out of the same world that held Jennie in its clutches." A sculptress and journalist who journeyed to Moscow and lived in the Kremlin during the Russian Revolution, Clare "was the first great romantic career women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Woman's Place | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...explains. "We're all handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior of a small chapel, for which she made five white-on-white wood sculptures and a white-and-gold Nevelsonian crucifix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Classy Newcomer on the Skyline | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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