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News and notes sponsor EA. Anyone, of course, is welcome and geometric forms that are related to feelings, not
it would seem an obligatory summer pilgrimage to objects in nature.
for any serious art student, and a good few
other people, too, in the south this coming The Gallery, a new gallery of conceptual art,
vacation. opened last January at 65a Lisson Street.
Currently on view are potato sculptures by
Nick Serota is to be the new director of Kunst Wangler. Previous exhibitions have
ICA 'Art Schools' debate, 17 May at 7.3o: MOMA, Oxford. included potato pieces by Spud Wanger, the
Platform: Norbert Lynton, Patrick Heron, gallery's director, and As Long As It Takes to Go
John Barnicoat, Stuart Mason, Gwyther Irwin, Artists' Liberation Front was founded in for a Walk by Robert Lang.
David Bethall. London on 1 May 1971 by Filipino artist
David Medalla and American artist John The reclusive and reticent Edward Burra is
Many of the artists working at io Martello Dugger. The two are practitioners of well worth seeing and hearing in Peter Smith's
St, E8, will be opening their studios and `participation-production art', works in which Arts Council sponsored film, Edward Burra,
showing work in the building from May 24-May the spectator overcomes his alienation from the to be screened on BBC-2, 24 May, and at the
27, loam to 6pm daily. art object by joining in its creation. Their flat at Tate Gallery during the artist's retrospective
3A Newport Place, WC2, serves as a 24 May — 3o June.
Michael Levey is to succeed Sir Martin headquarters for progressive artists of various
Davies as Director of The National Gallery, nationalities. 'ALF', according to Medalla, The November issue of Studio International
London. `is an artists' mutual aid team. Members of contained a report on the events surrounding
ALF practise a wide variety of artistic styles Joseph Beuys's dismissal from his teaching post
André Emmerich's new gallery in Zurich and use all sorts of media, both traditional and at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in
(address: Todistrasse 40, 8002 Zurich) opens experimental. All members of ALF use Düsseldorf. In March he fought a successful
this month with a Morris Louis show. Later Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Tse-Tung thought suit for his former post through the Court of
exhibitions planned include an Olitski to guide their social and artistic practice.' Industrial Relations, and has won full
exhibition, and showings of artists associated Artists interested in joining are invited to reinstatement.
with Leo Castelli, among them Stella and Kelly. contact the group at the above address.
The gallery also hopes to exhibit Caro, Hockney Hubert Dalwood is to replace Edward
and Hoffman. Zürich has become an important Edward Steichen died at the end of March. Lucie-Smith in the rotating position of
gallery centre, with galleries run by Beyeler, Steichen, born on 27 March 1879 in chairman of the Serpentine Gallery's selection
Maeght and Marlborough. Luxembourg, was brought up in the United committee.
States. In 1900 he went to Paris where he
'Edinburgh Arts 73' will take place from studied art, painted and took photographs, Camden Arts Centre from 20 June to 15 July
July 29 - Sept. 8. For those six weeks a crowd of including portraits of Maeterlinck and Rodin will present `Midsummer Market', another
artists and students gathered by Ricky Demarco and his sculptures. His photography quickly effort to break down the barriers between
from all over the world will be in the city won Steichen international recognition and in spectator and spectacle, organized by Peter
working, teaching and exhibiting their work as 1902 he opened a studio in New York and Carey. Original prints and crafts from
they see fit, at the Demarco Gallery, Traverse became a founder member of the influential communes, children's play centres and
Theatre, Edinburgh Poorhouse (Forrest Hill) Photo-Secession. In 1905 he opened the individual artists will be for sale at prices
and sundry police stations, Old Folks homes and Photo-Secession Gallery, subsequently the accessible to most people.
prisons now under negotiation. Trips to all parts `291', with Alfred Steiglitz. Steichen returned to Applications from creative souls who would
of the country including the outer isles will also France in 1906 and through Steiglitz got the like to take part in 'Midsummer Market' can be
be laid on, so much work will be done/exhibited work of Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse, Braque, sent to Peter Carey, Visual Arts Manager for
on site outside the city. Principal participants in Brancusi and others of the avant garde shown Camden, Swiss Cottage Library, London W3.
charge of workshops will be: Beuys (Sculpture) in the United States for the first time. In the
Kahn (Architecture) Maxwell Davies (Music) First World War he established aviation 'The Photography of Paul Nash', gallery 16
Stuart Hoppes (Music) Lindsay Anderson photography and between the Wars worked as at the Tate Gallery, will be on view from May-
(Film) Kantor (Theatre) MacDiarmid & chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. 24 June. Between 1930 and his death in 1946,
Gwatkin (Literature — lectures) Hamilton In the Second War he was in command of all Paul Nash took possibly several thousand
Finlay (Concrete Poetry) Donald (Printmaking) US Navy combat photography. His last and photographs of seascapes, landscapes, still
and important representatives from many Art perhaps most important appointment was as lives and other subjects complementary to his
Colleges and University Art Departments Director of the Department of Photography at work. To coincide with the exhibition the Tate is
including Dartmouth, Berkeley, Guelph, Nova MOMA, New York, a post he held for 15 years publishing a 128 page illustrated book
Scotia, Minneapolis and Tulare. In addition from 1947. The Photographs of Paul Nash: Document and
there will be specially invited groups of artists Image, introduced by Andrew Causey, with
from France, Jugoslavia, Poland and Scotland, `The Non-Objective World: 1914-1955' nearly 100 monochrome illustrations, at £1.25
and an exhibition of contemporary Austrian art From July through September Annely Juda (paperback) and £1.80 (cloth) postage Sop
in part of the gallery to coincide with the official Fine Art will present `The Non-Objective extra. Available from booksellers and Tate
Edinburgh Festival. For these last three weeks World : 1914-55', a summary of exhibitions Gallery Publications Dept., Millbank,
`EA73' will join with the Traverse Theatre and held there in three parts over the past three years London SWIP 4RG.
the Edinburgh Film Festival to become `Festival (1914-24, 1924-39, and 1939-55). The title
73' with overall tickets etc. 13o paying students originates in two essays by Malevich (1927), Gallery House, which for the past eighteen
(many of them professional artists and/or on and the core of the show are suprematists and months has been a vital centre for contemporary
scholarship) will form the basic workshops and constructivists. The 'world' evoked is of art, is due to be shut down in July. The German

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