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Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter and His Model, by Marc Chagall, he flatly refused to handle it as a poster for the Chagall exhibition at the Kunsthaus Center. Unless Kunsthaus Director Eylert Spars would let him paste a paper ribbon across the model's breasts. Spars sighed, and instead of posting his 800 posters...
...Richmond homeowner convicted of trapping animals inside the city limits. His crime: he had rounded up a few squirrels when they began to overrun his lawn, then deposited them unharmed in the countryside. ≫ A Charlottesville painter who had been found guilty of violating the Sabbath blue laws. He had been repainting the white lines of a grocery store's parking lot on Sunday, the only day the lot was free of cars. ≫ A woman who had received a parking ticket for leaving her Volkswagen more than twelve inches from the curb. All the nearby larger cars, which...
...simply taken off a Victorian lamp base." But he was one of the few to stick to the subject of forgery. Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb blasted at the public, in general and dealers in particular, saying, "Society doesn't seem to be interested in protecting the artist." Painter Theodoros Stamos lambasted dealers who "hold a picture for two years before they send it back, so you forget what the hell it looks like." Then added, "I don't give a damn about the public. They've done nothing but buy a name...
Quite apart from Kennedy, it was a vintage year for biography, ranging from George Painter's brilliant but specialized Proust: The Later Years to Richard Dillon's Meriwether Lewis, in its own way an equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
...refuse to draw the line between flat painting and three-dimensional structures," says Wesselmann. "I'm aware of the differences between real and imi tation, but I don't attach much significance to the distinction. A painter from Belgium was up to my studio and thinks my works have to do with capitalism because I use real products. Not so; it's really an affirmation of the whole world...