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News and notes He reached a new level of originality and Photography grants 1973-74. The Arts
assurance in this medium while working Council is offering grants for projects in
alongside Appel, Baj, Constant and Matta at photography. Individual photographers, groups
Albisola-Mare in Italy in 1954-5. His greatest of photographers, museums, galleries,
single achievement is the giant ceramic wall, universities, public institutions and non-profit
measuring 10 x 88 ft, commissioned for a new distributing organizations may apply. For
grammar school in Aarhus in 1959. further information write Barry Lane ,
In 1953 Jorn made the crucial decision to Exhibition Organizer, Arts Council of Great
leave Denmark to seek his luck abroad. If one Britain, 105 Piccadilly, London WI.
looks for a precise turning point in his career and
reputation, this occurred in 1958, when Lettre 'Artists from Four Continents', at Swiss
a mon fils (possibly his finest painting up to that Cottage Library from 3o June to 26 July, will
time) was shown alongside Willem emphasize the cosmopolitan nature of London
de Kooning's pictures in 50 ans d'art moderne at in a local and friendly setting. The opening will
the Expo in Brussels. From now on he was include an African band and street fairs on the
recognized as a leading artist in Europe. green outside the library.
Jorn was also a writer, with a prodigious
output on a variety of subjects. His most Peter Lasko is to be the new director of the
brilliant book came out in 1968 under the title Courtauld Institute, the University of
La langue verte et la cuite. The text, which he London . . . Sir John Pope-Hennessy is to be
wrote together with Noel Arnaud, satirizes the the next Director of the British Museum. The
famous French anthropologist Claude appointment leaves vacant the Directorship of
Levi-Strauss, who uses gastronomic metaphors the Victoria and Albert Museum . . . Michael
for his structural analysis. At the time of his Sullivan of Stanford University is to be the
death Jorn had almost completed a two-volume new Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford
study of Theodoric the Great. University.
Jorn died in Denmark, after four months of
illness, at the beginning of May this year. At the Museum charges contd:
age of fifty-nine he had achieved a life work Mr Spearing asked the Secretary of State for
difficult to match in modern times. q Education and Science if she has any plans to
GUY ATKINS ask the Trustees of the Tate Gallery to impose
charges for admission during phase 3 of the
Five Women Artists — Anne Berg, Elizabeth Government's counter-inflation policy.
Moore, Monica Sjoo, Roslyn Smythe, Beverly Mr St John-Stevas: My noble friend the
Skinner — who recently gave a group exhibition Paymaster-General is not yet in a position to
at Swiss Cottage Library, have called a general make an announcement on this subject.
meeting of women in the arts, with a view to (Written answers, House of Commons, May 9).
Asger Jorn. Photo: Svend Thomsen
organizing to combat discrimination against The PMG's secretary reports the same.
women in male-dominated art institutions. The
Asger Jorn was born in Denmark in 1914. He meeting will be held at Large Hall, St Peter's 'How to Play the Environment Game', on
belongs to what is obviously by far the most Church, Belsize Square, London NW3, at view at the Hayward Gallery until 24 June, has
talented generation of artists that Denmark has 7.30 pm on I July. been threatened with libel actions by firms
ever produced: including Heerup, Carl- cited. The show will tour Britain for the next
Henning Pedersen, Richard Mortensen and Recent acquisitions by the Tate, not yet on year, beginning in September at the Ikon
Robert Jacobsen. In 1948 Jorn became a leading public view, include works by Joseph Beuys, Gallery in Birmingham.
figure in the COBRA movement, which was Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan, Dan Graham,
made up of Danish, Dutch and Belgian artists, John Hilliard, Donald Judd, Bruce McLean, Fluxshoe, a travelling show of experimental
who held joint exhibitions in Belgium and Klaus Rinke, Dick Serra and David Tremlett. art, coordinated by David Mayor, is currently
Holland, thereby challenging the monopoly of touring Britain. It consists of two parts : a
Paris as a centre for artistic theories and Anyone in favour of the following should standing exhibition, and performances and
activities. Later Jorn and Guy Debord founded write to their MP immediately asking events. Marc Chaimowicz, Felipe Ehrenberg,
the International Situationist movement, whose him/her to support Early Day Motion Ken Friedman and Per Kirkeby will participate
anarchic slogans and graffiti appeared on the no. 338. in Fluxshoe at the Midland Group Gallery in
walls of Paris during the events of May 1968. Fears for the Future of Art Education : Nottingham, from 6 to 19 June. Fluxshoe will
Jorn himself made some of the posters. That this House urges Her Majesty's then appear at the Blackburn Museum in
Jorn's ceuvre has been varied and prolific. His Government to take steps to allay present fears Lancashire from 7 to 21 July.
paintings, excluding collages and acrylics, in art colleges about the future of art education;
probably number about three thousand. A is opposed to any implementation of the Jesse Watkins has now completed the stainless
selection of some of the best of his works is on report of the Pooling Committee that would steel mobile sculpture for the new Royal Free
view in Brussels this month, in a large result in a reduction in the numbers of Hospital in Hampstead. The sculpture, costing
retrospective at the Palais des Beaux Arts from practising artists teaching part-time in art £6,000, is being financed by the Board of the
23 May to 24 June. Over one hundred paintings colleges; believes that foundation courses are a Hospital and the Arts Council of Great Britain.
are to be seen there, together with graphics, vital part of art education; and considers that It was chosen from a selection of suitable pieces
book illustrations, and a number of sculptures in the move towards an insistence on two A-levels including submissions from Norman Adams and
bronze and marble which were made in Italy as an entry requirement to art colleges stems William Tucker.
last year. In this exhibition there is only one from a fundamental misunderstanding of what
major gap: ceramics, in which Jorn excelled. art is all about.
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