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Australia : to Sydney on the 16th and Drawing Biennale is being held in the lithographs in editions of 350, are to 'Prometheus strangling the vulture'
to Melbourne on the 30th). Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Teesside, be published by Observer Art. was prepared for the international
from 3 August to 30 September. exhibition of 1937 in Paris. The
John Walker's new silkscreens and A new arts centre has opened in approach of war drove the artist from
lithographs will be at Nigel Kenneth Armitage's sculpture, chosen Havering, London. The building it France to the US, where he infused
Greenwood, from 25 July to by Alan Bowness in collaboration occupies is a house in Hornchurch his art with themes of the heroic in
18 August. with the artist, will be at the Plymouth that was recently vacated by one of man. He lived mostly in the US since,
Art Gallery through 8 July, and at the Havering Council departments. returning to France in 1946, for a
Provincial Art Summer the Llanelli Public Library from commision to make a Madonna for a
Bruce Lacey and Family will 11 August to 1 September. The Westward TV Open Art new church at Plateau d'Assy. In 1972
present 'Journey through a Black Exhibition invites entries in six a large retrospective of his work was
Hole to a Coloured Planet', at the The Vincent Van Gogh Museum categories : painting, sculpture, shown at the Metropolitan Museum
Spectro Arts Workshop, Whitley has opened in Museum Square, drawing and watercolour, film and of Art, New York.
Bay, Northumberland, from Amsterdam. The collection, video, prints, and ceramics. The
20 to 22 July. containing some eighty to ninety closing date for entry forms is The Festival of Independent
per cent of Van Gogh's work, was 17 August. For further details write to Avant-Garde Film, to be held at
Jules Baker and Rosie Antrobus will donated to the Dutch government Westward TV, Plymouth. the NFT, London, as announced on
be touring England this summer with by the artist's nephew, V. W. Van page 39, will have shows with free
inflatable structure events. Their Gogh. Pun-sculptor Vaughan Grylls will entrance on every week-day at
biggest London event will be a have a specially designed installation 2.15. Ken Jacobs will present his
monster battle on Parliament Hill, The Chagall Museum. The French at The Gallery, 65a Lisson Street, for back-projection polaroid, 3D,
21 July. They will appear at festivals government has built a museum for three weeks beginning 24 September. shadow theatre piece on
in Jarrow, Co. Durham (18-19 July) Marc Chagall, which will open in The installation, an ironic celebration 14 September.
Whitley Bay, Northumberland Nice on 7 July, the artist's 86th of the 'end' of the Vietnam War, will
(25-26 July) and Kendall, birthday. be called 'An Indochinese Pun- Martin Naylor has been awarded
Westmorland (1-2, 8-9 September). Sculpture'. the Gregory Fellowship in
Exposition Picasso, which Picasso Sculpture at Leeds University,
Working Order, an exhibition about was compiling at the time of his 7th Burnaby Print Biennial, commencing 1 September 1973.
man and his environment, devised by death, is a retrospective of 201 a competitive exhibition of the work
Keith Critchlow, will be at the City paintings done by the artist between of Canadian artists or artists resident Igino Legnaghi is presenting his
Art Gallery in Bradford through 1970 and 1973. It is being held at the in Canada : first one-man show in Britain in the
15 July and at the Mappin Art Grande Chapelle du Palais des Entry blanks from : Garden and Gallery of the Camden
Gallery in Sheffield from 28 July Papes, Avignon, through September. 7th Burnaby Biennial Arts Centre, London, closing
to 26 August. The Burnaby Arts Gallery 15 July. Legnaghi is an Italian, born
Turner in Lisbon. An exhibition of 6344 Gilpin St. in Verona in 1936. His treatment of
Bridget Riley:'Paintings and paintings and watercolours by Burnaby 2, B.C. modern materials is grounded in a
Drawings 1961-73'. At the D.L.I. Turner, organized by the Tate Gallery Work must be received by knowledge and respect for
Museum and Arts Centre in Durham and the British Council, will be on 21 Sept., 1973. craftsmanship apparent in the
through 15 July; at the Scottish view at the Calouste Gulbenkian technical virtuosity of his
National Gallery of Modern Art in Foundation Gallery in Lisbon The Arts Council of Great Britain sculptures. He has exhibited
Edinburgh, 21 July-12 August; through 15 July. has opened a shop at 28 Sackville throughout Italy, participating
and at the City Museum in Street, off Piccadilly selling ACGB in the Venice Biennale and the Rome
Birmingham, 18 August-9 September. Alan Sonfist's final work of art will publications : postcards, magazines, Quatriennale, and in Yugoslavia and
be to donate his body to MOMA in etc. the United States. London has only
Magic and Strong Medicine, an New York. He is designing and previously seen a few individual
exhibition selected by Norbert constructing an air-tight container The Redfern Gallery celebrates its examples of his sculpture at the
Lynton, will include film, neon and that will enclose his body within two 50th anniversary this year. Many of Redfern Gallery. To coincide with
steel sculpture, canvas, constructions hours of his death. the now well-known artists it this exhibition, the Redfern Gallery
and outdoor performances. Artists encouraged early - Moore, Ernst, will be simultaneously displaying
represented : Mark Boyle, Stuart The First New Hampshire Delvaux - plus younger painters and some of Legnaghi's smaller pieces.
Brisley, Hubert Dalwood, Alan Davie, Graphics Annual invites entries of sculptors, will be represented in its COMPILED BY JOHN CAUMAN
Paul Huxley, Ken Kiff, Phillip King, original prints. Entry cards must be summer exhibition.
Carl Plackman, Philip Vaughan. At received by 1 October. For further
the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, information, write New Hampshire A Labour policy document, now
from 27 July to 28 October. Graphics Society, Hollis, New with the Shadow Cabinet, USA
Hampshire, U.S.A. recommends a doubling of
Performances de l'Art Francais, an government and local authority Some weeks after the record-breaking
exhibition of contemporary French Ceramics International 73, a spending on the arts. The document Kuniyoshi sale, 47 works from the
art, will be held at the Royal Scottish three-day conference and month-long envisages a statutory 2p rate, which Norton Simon Collection were
Academy in conjunction with the exhibit, will be held in Alberta, would increase the contribution of auctioned at Parke-Bernet for over
Edinburgh International Festival Canada, beginning 26 August. local authorities from £12m to £50m $6.7 million. Included were a Paul
(19 August-8 September). The a year. The government would match Cezanne Vase de Tulipes, purchased
exhibition was assembled by Georges St Martin's has appointed Simon pound for pound the amount raised anonymously for $1.4 million, and an
Boudaille and includes work by Pugh as the head of the department locally, providing another £50m. Edouard Manet sold to Wildenstein Et
César, Damian, Herbin, Lenormand, of complementary studies and John Co. for the same price. None of the
Szafran and Vasarely. Edwards as the senior lecturer in Jacques Lipchitz died at the end of many Japanese dealers in the
painting. May. He was born in Druskieniki, audience went on record as having
Platform 73 at MO MA, Oxford : a Lithuania, on 22 August 1891 and purchased any of the collection. Mr
post-diploma show, selected by The Agency, 125 Notting Hill Gate, went to Paris to study in 1909. A Simon, a west coast industrialist and
Peter Ibsen, from art colleges is a new partnership of Alistair bout with tuberculosis and a stint in art collector, who was selling works in
throughout Britain. From 14 July to McIntosh and Graham Paton the Russian army interrupted his order to refine his collection and
12 August. representing artists who operate studies. He returned to Paris in 1913 enable him to purchase more Asian
outside the traditional gallery and remained there until the art, had this to say on the issue of
British Watercolours from the John circuit. Negotiations are under way outbreak of the Second World War. provenance : 'I won't buy anything
Edward Taylor Collection will be with performance artists Stuart During this time he became one of the unless I have studied it and its
presented by the Whitworth Art Brisley, Marc Chaimowicz, John leaders of the School of Paris. He was provenance thoroughly.' Several days
Gallery as its contribution to the Dugger and David Medalla, and with among the first to apply the after the auction Mr Simon told New
Manchester '73 Festival. Through artists who work on a suitable scale principles of Cubism to sculpture, but York Times reporters he had paid
28 July. for large commissions. by circa 1925 he had evolved a $1 million for a Hindu sculpture which
personal style of openwork sculpture Indian officials claim was stolen from
The First British International Duncan Grant's first prints, two (sculptures transparentes). His a temple and smuggled out of their
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