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Triad is the name of a new regional arts centre The Circle Gallery has ceased trading from Anatomy of an
which is being developed in Bishop's Stortford. Grosvenor Street. The proprietor, John Hunter,
It involves the conversion of one of will be continuing limited operations from 3, anomaly
Hertfordshire's last great complexes of Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, London SW3.
malthouses. A large exhibition area has been Technology and Art 28
roughly cleared, and an exhibition of sculpture The Alwin Gallery has just left Brook Street
by Peter Hibbard has recently been held there. and will be moving shortly to new West End
An exhibition programme is being drawn up, premises. The temporary address, for
and eventually there will be studios and correspondence only, is c/o Company Secretary,
workshops available to artists. 4 Bryanston Mews West, London, WI.

The Gallery 27 at Emporium Arcade, Sotheby's Belgravia, a saleroom specializing
Northampton, is a new and interesting one in 19th-century works of art, housed behind the
for two reasons : it is non-profit-making and it famous colonnade in Motoomb Street, will hold
might never have come into being but for the its first sale in the autumn of 1971.
anger of half of Northampton's population and
of three artists, Paolo Serra, Sergio Lovato and Centre National d'Art Contemporain, A two day Colloquy on art and the computer was
well-known sculptor Campolunghi. The anger Paris, announces an exhibition of work by held by the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,
was evoked by the action of the town council in Beuys from 23 October to 13 December, in the Yugoslavia, at the end of June.
pulling down some interesting old buildings Rue Berryer Gallery. At the Grand Palais there
near the market-place to make way for a new is to be an exhibition of work by Francis Bacon, The changing role of public galleries and
bus-station. The outcry attracted 10,000 from 26 October to 10 January 1972. museums has been much discussed. The Gallery
signatures in protest and the new gallery, the of Contemporary Art in Zagreb has pursued a
primary function of which was to bring people Pork, Andy Warhol's first play, had its world policy whose logic should be noted. In 1961 it
back into the arcade (which is Victorian) in such premiere at the Round House on 2 August, held the first exhibition of the New Tendencies
numbers as to underline the general feeling that produced by Ira Gale. After its run at the movement. One of the chief principles shared
the arcade must be preserved, also attracted by the diverse artists involved was the negation
well-known names such as John Nash, David Round House, 'Pork' will move to the West of unique, unrepeatable and static artworks.
End; later this year it will be opening in
Tindle, etc. Amsterdam and it should reach Broadway in Where does this leave the public gallery ? The
The gallery, being better established now has Zagreb Gallery decided to concentrate on the
besides paintings and sculpture a new section February or March 1972. investigating of ideas resulting from New
for modern jewellery with work by Kathleen Tendencies, through colloquies, exhibitions,
Mannheim, Shirley Frost, Jane Featherstone, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, publications and other events. The area it has
Ann Buzzard. through two recent acquisitions of settled on since 1968 is the relationship between
photographic materials, has brought to an the computer and art; but its decision on its role
estimated 400,00o items the holdings of its
Project 84 was installed in the Chalk Farm is of wider revelance. Its lack of local nationalism
Photographic Archive. The Kress Foundation
Creamery, Prince of Wales Crescent, NW3, is also exemplary. The Gallery's policy has not
has made possible this acquisition of some
during August, after a long search for premises, always been popular locally, and testifies to
and the centre should be operational by the 120,000 photographic negatives of works of art considerable strength of purpose on the part of
beginning of October. The initial premises will sold at Parke-Bernet from the 193os to 1965. the collective that runs it.
consist of a library and meeting room, together This negative file, purchased from Taylor and This said, the notion of 'visual research'
with the use of an adjoining lecture room Dull, includes about ten per cent of paintings, characteristic of New Tendencies and the
capable of holding up to 8o people. The main while the bulk focuses on the decorative arts, GRAV must be looked at critically. In so far as
role of the library will be : to collect and store including silver, tapestries, rugs, china, books `visual research' means experimental
items of information covering aspects of the and manuscripts as well as furniture. The other psychology, this is potentially valuable in that it
relationship between art and science not major photographic acquisition is the Clarence contributes to the understanding of human
easily obtainable elsewhere; to fill the gaps that Ward Mediaeval Archive, a collection of over behaviour. But the theories offered by
exist between areas covered by fragmented 1200 rare negatives of European architecture. experimental psychologists—represented at the
specialist libraries; to keep a record of those colloquy by François Molnar from Paris—are
places where useful information is stored and Four Americans in Paris: The Collection unusually modest in scope; nor are they
accessible. of Gertrude Stein and her Family will be confined to the study of visual perception, which
Further details can be obtained from David the major autumn exhibition at the San is but one aspect of psychology. Two other
Dickson, 10 Chalcott Square, NWI. Francisco Museum of Art, opening on 9 `tendencies' could be distinguished at Zagreb.
September and continuing until the end of First, there is 'information aesthetics',
Prints Already Ltd, a new Fine Art Silk- October. The collection is a record and a represented by Abraham Moles and Herbert
Screen process printers has started production reminder of how, fifty years ago in Paris, these Franke, and also by Frieder Nake, who was
at 113 Upper Street, Islington, NI, tel: 226 four Americans helped to establish artists such unable to be present (being now in Vancouver)
o866. The studio is fully equipped and has a as Picasso and Matisse. Also included in the but sent a paper.' Secondly, there is what can be
separate photographic dark room. The upper exhibition are works by Cezanne, Delacroix, described as scientific, or scientistic, art: the
floors will be utilized for showing artists' work. Juan Gris, Lipchitz, Picabia, Renoir and many difference between this and the other two
The studio is printing limited editions of art others. `tendencies' being that its goal is not to offer
work and involving the artist to the fullest theories or hypotheses, subject to confirmation
extent. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has or falsification, but artistic utterances—subject
been announced that Karl Katz, former Director presumably to the same criteria of merit as any
Grosvenor Gallery has moved from Davies of the Jewish Museum, New York, has been other art. This I think is how we must take the
Street to 48-49 South Molton Street, London named to the newly created position of Chairman work of Vladimir Bonacic, head of cybernetics
W1Y2JU. for Special Exhibitions and Loans. at a local research institute, who has made a large
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