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represented by the gallery; however, there are
editors feel that these cannot be adequately others, including Buckminster Fuller, Oldenburg, Technology
appreciated in isolation from the concerns and
directions of the other arts, and therefore, wher- Christo etc. Among works shown will be a model
ever possible and appropriate there will be articles by drawings, and a model of his bronze Grotto made and art
of Frederick Kiesler's Endless House accompanied
on music, theatre, literature, architecture, film,
etc. The magazine will also undertake to print in 1963. Also included are Len Lye's drawings of
articles from overseas journals and from its own his fantastic Temple of Lightning and his Flying
overseas correspondents where such material Discs.
might not otherwise be freely available to readers
in Australia. All correspondence should be Three major works by David Bomberg can
addressed to The Editor, Other Voices, Box C198 now be seen together in Gallery 25 at the Tate
Clarence Street, P.O., NSW 2000. Subscription Gallery. With the acquisition (with aid from the
£8.00 (10 issues). Postage free in Australia. Contemporary Art Society) of his Vision of Ezekiel
1912, the Tate now owns all three of Bomberg's
The Cologne Kunstmarkt opens on 13 October surviving most radical paintings of the period
in the Kunsthalle and the Kunstverein and closes 1912-14.
on the 18th. Among galleries which will be
represented are René Block, Brusberg, Fischer, Hitler's Delusions of Grandeur: Architecture
Friedrich, Muller, Neuendorf, Ricke, Schmela, inside the Third Reich and The Passionate
Der Spiegel, Zwirner and Thelen. Apart from the Years: German Expressionism 1905-193o are
general Kunstmarkt catalogue, a catalogue de two shows concurrently on view at the New York
luxe is being produced price DM 500, which con- Cultural Centre till 8 November. The Third Reich
tains signed and numbered graphics by 21 artists show includes forty original drawings by Hitler
including LeWitt, Mack, Bonato, Peine, Twombly himself; all being exhibited for the first time.
and Kriwet— (obtainable through Kolner Kunst-
markt, 5 Koln-1, Tunisstrasse 19, Germany). Software, an exhibition organized by Jack Burn-
ham, author of Beyond Modern Sculpture, will be on
The Unesco conference, held recently near exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, till
Venice, united 450 delegates from about 80 8 November. It will then be transferred to the
countries, including 46 ministers as well as Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., where
observers from the most important cultural it can be seen from 16 December till 14 February
foundations and non-governmental organizations. 1971.
M. René Maheu, director-general of Unesco, Among the exhibitors announced are Hans
obtained acceptance in the final report for his Haacke, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, and Nicholas
view that national authorities have a duty to pro- Negroponte and the Architecture Machine Group
vide their people with the means to share in the (M.I.T.). The hardware includes time-sharing
cultural activities of the community as an essential computers, teletype equipment, solar-powered
part of the dignity of man. The final report is radios, high-speed copying machines and closed-
expected to contain a reasonably clear statement circuit TV.
on the rights.of artists to freedom of expression and
THE VACUUM IN ART EDUCATION
to a say in the making of cultural policy. The Computer 70, a major trade exhibition at
Unesco conference is the first world conference on Olympia, London (5-9 October), will include an Art education is worth bothering about
culture. interactive simulation game, implemented by the because nobody knows what it is, and there is
Computer Arts Society, as its central feature. a mighty vacuum waiting to be filled. This I
The WORK exhibition opens at the National George Mallen, a behavioural scientist, writes in learnt, among other things, from spending a
Museum of Wales on i5 October. The exhibition, the tenth number of Page (bulletin of the CAS) : day at the INSEA 70 World Congress of Art
the second of its kind organized by the Welsh Arts `The game structure is based on a very simple
Council, will contain posters, fashion, film, tv, sea- mathematical interpretation of the dynamics of Education at Coventry. The day was devoted
side postcards, flags, sculpture, pottery, books, ecological systems... As in real life, success in the to art and technology and organized by Tom
paintings, toys and other diverse materials with game is difficult to define. A player may adopt a Hudson, director of studies at the Cardiff
the common subject of work. Simultaneously Lund socially (i.e. good for the overall resource level in College of Art. Mr Hudson is an eloquent and
Humphries will publish the first 2 titles in a series the system) beneficial policy at personal cost or he
of books based on the exhibitions. These will may adopt a selfish resource grabbing policy for creative teacher, and the congress as a whole
explore the relationship between art and society. himself at great social cost.' inspired respect. If one sensed a lack of in-
Further information about the content of the The interaction will be controlled by two computer tellectual coherence throughout, this is not
exhibition is available from: Peter Jones, Welsh systems with visual display units, and the whole the fault of educationalists but of us all—for
Arts Council, Museum Place, Cardiff CF 1 3NX. game will be housed in a 35-foot diameter geodesic accepting so meekly the many versions of
dome.
N.E. Thing Co. is asking museums, universities, irresponsibility that hang about the subject
art schools and interested persons to participate in Charles Csuri the computer graphics artist of art.
an art information NETWORK throughout this (see Cybernetic Serendipity catalogue pp. 81 ff.) has It is sometimes tempting to try and drop the
month. The transmitted art information works produced an exhibition catalogue 'Interactive • word 'art' altogether from our vocabulary,
going over TELEX or TELECOPIER are Sound and Visual Systems' (Division of Art, especially when its prestige is claimed by
directly applying communication to instant in- College of the Arts, Ohio State University). dubious art-world promotions. But the conse-
volvement on a vast geographic scale. It is hoped
this will involve schools and organizations in one A new gallery has opened in London. Zeez/Arts quences of doing so would be damaging. A
of the most important contemporary art projects is a concept coined by Michael Grey in discussion recent article by Walter James in The Times
developed with information. In particular it offers with some young artists met after a Slade diploma (22 August), 'Opposing views on design edu-
a unique learning situation to groups of students show. It is a very open concept, and can be found cation', contrived to discuss the future of art
in Fine Arts, Communications, Creative Writing in the basement of Grey's furniture store at 47 schools exclusively in terms of design. The
and Art Education. Address: N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Chiltern Street, London W1. The intention to
1419 Riverside Drive, North Vancouver, B.C. date is to provide a space for artists' events, article begins:
Canada. Tel. (604) 929-3662, Telex 04-507802. environmental situations and human involvement `Events at Hornsey College of Art in 1968 were far
—rather than to provide profits from Ye Olde Fine more than student revolt. They showed the design
Propositions for Unrealized Projects con- Art Object. The first exhibition is of Peter Ken- world divided from top to bottom on how its students
tinues at the Howard Wise gallery till 10 Octo- nard's 'Generation Newspeak', which is Phase 3 should be educated for the future. Fundamentally it is
ber. The show will include works of about 20 of an on-going work. Phase 2 is also currently to
artists and architects who have completed draw- be seen at the Central Collegiate Building, Gordon a clash between generalists and specialists and this
ings and models for fantastic and/or unrealized Street, London Wl, and Phase 4 will soon be is what the Summerson-Coldstream committees,
projects. Most of the artists in the exhibition are visible somewhere in the streets of London. when they jointly report next month, are rather