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...inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
...architect at the time, witnessed the coming of age of the U.S. as a world art power in the 1950s. Many of the abstract expressionists who were responsible for that triumph were his friends, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Smith designed the Long Island homes of Painter Theodores Stamos and Gallery Owner Betty Parsons. Not the least important aspect of the abstract expressionists was the size of their paintings. To force the spectator to become a part of their huge gesture paintings, leaders of the movement expanded their canvases to the size of whole walls...
Obviously, Jan Stüssy, 46, is a man in a box. But happily for him, he is also a painter who has found in art "the only compass I can use to find my way." Along the route, he has managed to have 27 one-man shows, with paintings in dozens of U.S. and European galleries. He is professor of art at U.C.L.A., where 31 of his latest works are on display before going on a tour of South America later this year...
...city's historic sections to their original appearance. The job has taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public at long last realized that Bellotto had been...
Brooklyn-born Snaith was a high school dropout who later studied architecture at New York University and, after a brief tour as a Left Bank painter, began scratching a living as an architectural draftsman in Manhattan. After a while, he caught on as a designer of commercial interiors and in 1936 joined Loewy, one of industrial design's pioneers, to help fashion the cabins of TWA's Boeing Stratoliners. Snaith became a partner in 1944, managing partner in 1956, and president in 1961. Loewy, now 74, still retains half ownership of the company, but spends six months...