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                                                                                              The diagram of meeting 1966 a drawing on card by
                                                                                              Arakawa, in a one-man show at Galleria Schwarz,
                                                                                              17 via Gesù, through October. Arakawa was born
                                                                                              in Tokyo in 1936 and studied medicine and
                                                                                              mathematics. His first one-man shows were in
                                                                                              1959 and 1960 at the Museum of Modern Art in
                                                                                              Tokyo. In the same year he formed a group and
                                                                                              staged several happenings. In 1962 he moved to
                                                                                              New York and has exhibited in Europe and America.

                                                                                              Rome
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                                                                                              Le ragazze di Arles 1966, gouache, 19 x 13 in. by
                                                                                              Renato Guttuso in a one-man show at the Galeria
                                                                                              Medusa, 124 via del Babuino until October 30.
                                                                                              Guttuso was born in Palermo in 1912 and now lives
                                                                                              and works in Rome. (Price range $1,000—$5,000).

                                                                                              New York
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                                                                                             Pandora from a special exhibition of musical
                                                                                              instruments in the Medieval Sculpture Hall at the
                                                                                              Metropolitan Museum of Art, called Pleasing eye
                                                                                             and ear alike, from October 2 to 8. This is a display
                                                                                              of old instruments including some early lutes and
                                                                                              picturesque slide trombones with their bells
                                                                                              transformed into dragon or snake heads. Also
                                                                                              included is the spinetta made in Venice in 1540
                                                                                              for Eleonora della Rovere, considered to be the best
                                                                                              preserved of its kind.
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                                                                                             Matisse et son modèle dans /'atelier 1918 oil on
                                                                                              canvas, 23½ x 28 in. by Henri Matisse at the
                                                                                              Wildenstein Gallery, 19 East 64th Street, from
                                                                                              October 4 to November 4. The exhibition is of the
                                                                                              Bakwin collection of paintings and sculpture, for
                                                                                             the benefit of the Association for Mentally III
                                                                                              Children in Manhattan. Various artists are
                                                                                              represented.
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                                                                                             Musical sculpture 1966, 28 in. high, by Francois
                                                                                             and Bernard Baschet from an exhibition of their
                                                                                              work at the Waddell Gallery, 15 East 57th Street,
                                                                                             from the end of October through November. This
                                                                                             gallery is sole agent for the Baschets in the U.S.A.
                                                                                              The works shown can be touched and played.
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                                                                                             Olymp 1967 brass and copper, 36½ x 29¾ x 23 in. by
                                                                                             Gunter Haese from the Guggenheim International
                                                                                             Exhibition 1967 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
                                                                                             Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue from October 20 to
                                                                                             February 4. The Guggenheim Internationals, which
                                                                                             have been held at the Museum since 1956, are
                                                                                             selective surveys of outstanding achievements in
                                                                                              contemporary art throughout the world. The
                                                                                              current show, which will fill the museum, is the
                                                                                             first to be devoted entirely to sculpture. It will
                                                                                             include 100 works of the 1960s by 80 artists.

                                                                                              Montreal
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                                                                                             Jean-Paul Mousseau with two of his paintings, from
                                                                                             a retrospective one-man show at the Museum of
                                                                                             Contemporary Art, 4040 Sherbrooke Street East,
                                                                                             from October 3 to November 5. Mousseau was born
                                                                                             in Montreal in 1927 and studied in Borduas' work-
                                                                                             shop. He takes part in all the automatist
                                                                                             exhibitions and has designed settings and stage
                                                                                             effects for theatres and ceramics for buildings.
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