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HIRAM WILLIAMS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th St. Williams' people are dough-faced cyclopes, chuckling dwarfs, malevolent freaks, some of them impeccably dressed in J. Press suits, all unkind to mankind. Through...
ANTONI TAPIES-Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th St. Lumpy canvases filled with shapes hacked and gouged out of rubberized marble dust have a grim sobriety that evokes the sun-parched Catalan world the artist lives in. Through...
...death in 1946 fills two floors with his paintings, collages and drawings. Among 100 works is his most ambitious, New York Interpreted, a five-canvas panorama that glows with dark lapidary lights. Through Dec. 4. Complementing the retrospective, a show at Schoelkopf Gallery, 825 Madison Ave. at 69th St., offers paintings, gouaches, drawings and collages from all periods of Stella's career. Through...
Hardly any anniversary of the old Bolsheviks passes Pravda by. But it is the custom in Moscow these days to skip the in-between birthdays and mark only the decades. So it was last week that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev's 69th birthday was totally ignored by the Communist party press. Everyone was waiting until next year, when they could wander down to Red Square and cheer for his Biblical allotment...
...full-page article in the old New York American, the noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz heralded the coming exhibition in phrases so extravagant that it hardly seemed possible that the show would live up to his claims. "This glorious affair," he wrote, "is coming off at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Don't miss it. If you still belong to the respectable old first primer class in art, you will see there stranger things than you ever dreamed were on land or sea-and you'll hear a battle cry of freedom without any soft pedal...