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Last week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow...
...Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through "all the isms-expressionism, surrealism, nonobjectivism"-before settling in New York in 1941 to find his real calling: chronicling "the quintessential people of our time" from Arp to Zeckendorf, and producing a gallery always elegant and sometimes profound-as when he painted Elsa Maxwell as a Velasquez court dwarf...
...show also offers two rare plaques by Thomas Eakins, some magical shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell, a fine head by Gauguin, some abstractions by David Smith, whom Hirshhorn began buying 20 years ago. From A (for Archipenko. Armitage and Arp) to Z (for Zadkine, Zajac and Zorach), the exhibition provides a splendid survey of modern sculpture, all the more refreshing because Hirshhorn collected it with no pretensions and no esthetic doubletalk, but simply out of his own compulsive love. When asked why he bought Epstein's Visitation, he explains: "It was a serene, beautiful piece which excited...
Invitations went out to leading sculptors around the world to exhibit their work-not for prizes, but for the sheer satisfaction of showing them to a large audience out-of-doors, as ornaments for a beautiful town. Contributions came from Picasso, Arp, Armitage, Giacometti, Butler and dozens of others...
This theme of embarrassment with jewelry making is one that artists revel in. Jean Arp says: "I made my first 'jewel' in 1914. I wore it myself as a tiepin. It was my period of dandyism." Giacometti says his first clips and buttons were made "to earn some money" and that, in recent years, he has refused invitations to make some jewelry because he has not been able to "summon up enough interest...