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USA and Canada 22 St Cloud 1926 neg. no. Modern Art. Most notably there are 25 Aux Ambassadeurs : Mlle Becat circa 1875,
1264, from an exhibition of the photographs coincidental visual relationships between the lithograph, by Edgar Degas from the Donald
of Eugene Atget (1856-1927) at The yantras and certain abstract paintings by Karshan Collection of Graphic Art on view at
Museum of Modern Art, New York, till major western artists of the twentieth century, the New York Cultural Centre till March 18.
March 22. With a bulky view camera, large some of whom, like Klee and Kandinsky, as This collection of 2000 prints assembled by
glass plates and a single lens, Atget recorded well as doing work with these visual affinities Donald H. Karshan is internationally
Paris and its immediate surroundings from to Tantric forms, also had a specific interest celebrated for its outstanding impressions and
the turn of the century until his death. He in Oriental mysticism and Indian philosophy. its span. Illustrated here is the print of Degas's
remains disputably the greatest of twentieth- 24 Untitled (To Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein on largest etching, one of the highlights of the
century photographers and one of the key not seeing anyone in the room) 1968-69, cool exhibition.
influences on the plastic arts of his time. white fluorescent light, room size 114 x 26 Ascension 1942, zinc lithograph, 17* x
23 Indian Tantric Diagram, date unknown, pen 148 x 242 in., by Dan Flavin, an exhibition 18- in., by Josef Albers from his series Graphic
and gouache, from the show '50 Tantric of whose work is showing at the Dwan Tectonic in the exhibition The Graphic
Mystical Diagrams' at the Jewish Museum Gallery, New York, from February 7 to Constructions of Josef Albers on show at the
through February. This exhibition which has March 5. Flavin was born in New York City Museum of Modern Art, New York, till
come on from the Los Angeles County in 1933. Since 1961 he has had 19 one-man March 15. Albers came to America in 1933,
Museum of Art, constitutes the first public exhibitions and now has work in almost a after the Bauhaus was closed, and taught at
showing of such diagrams in the USA. All dozen public collections, including the Black Mountain College, North Carolina.
Tantric Art has an exclusively religious Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Graphic Tectonic was the result of his first
function but these diagrams have been chosen National Gallery of Canada and the Stedelijk, sabbatical year.
as being of special interest in relation to Eindhoven.

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