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...Fine Art at Oxford, and in time he landed a staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration...
...clear day in 1956, Jack Youngerman, a Kentucky-born painter, then 30, returned to the U.S. after nine years in Paris. As his ship entered New York Harbor, he was struck by the bright sun glinting on the water and the skyline. "It reminded me of the Middle East," he recalls. "I had made several trips there while I was in Europe. Its fascination for me had something to do with clarity and voluptuousness, a preoccupation with perfumes and running water, a hashish atmosphere instead of the heavy barrooms-and-whis-ky Rubens atmosphere of Europe. Now I was struck...
...created ballets in the theater's repertory, some never before seen in this country. One of the best is Job Sanders' Impressions, which uses Paul Klee paintings as "points of departure" for seven vignettes (set to music by American Composer Gunther Schuller) that capture both the painter's economy and his wit. There is sexy balletic humor in a spoof of Arab amour that features sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches. Most ambitious American entry is Glen Tetley's The Anatomy Lesson, which takes...
...Piccadilly. Nonetheless, from its attic offices the Institute of Contemporary Arts has launched most of the exhibitions and manifestoes that have made Britain once again a force to be reckoned with in the arts. Leader of the small founding group was Sir Roland Penrose, now 67, a minor surrealist painter in his own right and longtime friend of Critic Sir Herbert Read and Sculptor Henry Moore. Under Penrose, ICA pioneered in giving major shows to artists from abroad, including Picasso, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier and Dubuffet. For artists at home, it served as both sounding board and workshop, provided...
...moved into new quarters in London's Pall Mall, not far from Buckingham Palace and only a few moments' trek from Trafalgar Square. Not that ICA has any intention of changing its way-out ways. Says Sir Roland Penrose, who has chaired the institute since its founding: "Painter, musician, poet, sculptor, actor, playwright, film director are all looking for ways of jumping into their neighbors' shoes-or at least running three-legged races with them. The new ICA gallery will encourage these trends...