Monday. March 24, 1980
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Galleries enhance art, critic says
By KEVIN MILLS
Staff Reporter
BY KEVIN MILLER
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Planners of art gallery exhibitions must be aware of the effect of the container on the contained, galleryburner, 1980; philosophy Lecturer in Land Sculpture, 1980.
A gallery and the artwork inside should merge to create a unified experience, he said. Neither art nor gallery space should be viewed as separate entities.
The Murphy lecture series, started last year in memory of former KU chancellor Frank Murphy, is sponsored by the Helen Nelson Art Gallery and the Nelson Art Gallery-Akims Museum.
"An ideal gallery subtracts from all artwork the idea that it is art." O'Doherty said.
SATURDAY'S LECTURE was entitled "The Gallery as a Gesture." Last week, O'Doherty spoke at Spencer on "The Artist and the Studio."
O'Doberty, born in Ireland, was an art critic for the New York Times for four years and is currently the director of the Media Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
He has authored several articles and books, and is working on "Inside the White Cube," a study of the effect of gallery space on art.
As an artist, his work is displayed under the pseudonym of Patrick Ireland, a political name he says he will retain until the British leave Northern Ireland.
On Friday, he unveiled a Patricia Ireland Installation at the Spencer Museum, entitled "The Red Room." He said the two-tier configuration of ropes and walls emphasized the spatial realities in "the work." The work will be displayed for two months.
In his lecture Saturday, O'Doherty said
galleries should be designed to allow the art to take on a life of its own. Elimination of windows, quiet floors, and the ceiling as a screen has been taken to achieve this effect, he said.
"IN THIS CONTEXT, a standing ashrift becomes almost a sacred object," he said. "The space is devoted to the technology of the aesthetics.
"Indeed, the presence of that odd piece of furniture, your body, seems obtrusive, an intruder."
One of the first to utilize the art gallery as a venue was Vye Klein in 1918 of *Obertary* (a 19th-century French publisher) arrangements evoked a "Buster Keaton sorrowness" that was neither humorous nor notational.
Right Angle
Brian O'Doherty, 1988 Murphy Lecturer in Art, helps Sandra Williams, assistant instructor in art therapy, find exactly the right position from which to view his newest works.
The installation, titled "The Red Room," occupies an entire room in the Museum's Krest Gallery. Visible behind "The Diority" is part of the work, a three-dimensional sculpture by Daniel Leiter.
IN 1968, Daniel Burren further explored the gallery's function by arranging an exhibition composed entirely of junk, piskel, and other objects that stretched to the ceiling, O'Doherty said.
Barry Barbert made perhaps the ultimate gesture in 1969, O'Doherty said. A sign he placed on the doors of a gallery read: "In this exhibition, the gallery will be closed."
Also in 1969, the artist Cristo was asked by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to an exhibition. He responded by creating a miniature inside and out with canvas, O'doberty sailed.
"It was unquestionably the most daring collaboration between an artist and museum director in the 1860s," he said. "His work of packaging was a parody of the divine art."
"Barry was very smart. 'O'Doherty said, "it's hard to believe the mind behind the individual. As they build templates the empty gallery, it begins to answer. The walls are now sets of assum-
O'DOHERTY SAID that art gains context through time, that "serendipious curve of history into an echo chamber."
"As modernism gets older, context becomes content. Memory is forgiven in modernism, which is always trying to remember the future," he said.
In the 1960s, he said, an international dialogue was conducted on value systems in artwork. The dialogue was liberated in one and always suffered from intellectual pride.
By the mid-70s, the trend was to literalize everything, he said, by transforming quantity into quality.
"So at the end of modernism, what have we got?" he asked. "We're trained to look at galleries differently."
Assembly to scrutinize B.G.S.
Staff Reporter
Bv RICK HELLMAN
The College Assembly will meet again tomorrow to continue its discussion of stiffer requirements for undergraduate degrees at the University of Kansas.
committee to task force to seminar and back again.
Proposals now before the Assembly call for the extension of English, Math and Speech requirements to the Bachelor of General Studies degree.
The move to extend the requirements to the B.G.S. degree begin in the fall of 1977. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences created four faculty seminars to discuss current law degree requirements and their effectiveness in providing a liberal education.
SINCE THAT TIME, recommendations and proposals have been shuffled from
At the last meeting of the College Assembly March 4, two proposals were submitted, one by the committee on policy and educational goals and the committee on undergraduate studies and advancing an earlier set of recommendations.
The Assembly voted 94 to 83 to adopt the committees' joint report for discussion at tomorrow's meeting.
That report recommends extending the current requirements for English, Math and Oral Communication to the B.G. degree, as math are required under the present system.
It also proposes to create a "degree candidacy status." Students would be required to complete three English courses,
one Oral Communications course requirement,
one course beyond course M00 022
and one course in each of three distribution
degrees, at least 45 hours before receiving
degree.
THE MINORITY REPORT would have required the Ore department's communication requirement and the minority standing and would have substituted one requiring completion of 10 hours of foreign training.
This plan would also call for interdivational, or "capstone" courses to be taken once a student had achieved degree requirements. The students would overlap two or three of the traditional distribution areas in an attempt to help students integrate knowledge gained from different schools.
meeting could portend a spirited debate at tomorrow's meeting.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he expected several motions to amend the proposal now before the Assembly.
If the proposals can make it through tomorrow's meeting with no more than a "little fine tuning," as Cobb suggested, they would have to take the final proposed decisions to its members.
A close vote on these proposals at the last
If a consensus cannot be reached by the next two meetings, the Assembly may decide to drop the whole revision project.
Anthony Genova, chairman of the philosophy department, said after the last meeting that a proposal represents the consensus that need. If that consensus can be reached, fine.
University Daily Kansan
On Campus
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TODAY: THE KU OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS will sponsor a conference titled "Beligion and Modern Human Aspirations: An International Conference on the Council Room of the Kansas University. The KU CREEM TWEAM will meet at 3 p.m. in front of 205 Robinson. The GRADUATE WOMEN'S GROUP will meet at nock in the Cork Room of the University. The CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM titled "The Uses of Eliot: An Emperiled奏陶机" at 3:30 p.m. in alceo D of the Kansas Union. An ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM titled "Historical leadership and Curriculum Literary study" at 3:30 p.m. in Ames University at 3:30 p.m. in 4025 Wesley.
TONIGHT: THE THETA TAU ENGINEERING SOCIETY will hold an initiation dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Walnut
Room of the Kansas Union. The LATIN AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION will show a film titled "Puerto Rico" at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. The JAYHAWK STRING TRIID will give a recital at 8 p.m, in Swoopborst Renaissance Hall at Marphe.
TOMORROW: Leon Fleischer will give a piano MASTERS CLASS at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy. The KU BASEBALL TEAM will visit the Kansas Field. The KANSAS GEOCOLLECTIVE SURVEY will sponsor a forum titled “Changing Institutional Patterns in World Energy Affairs” beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Apollo Christian SCIENCE ORGANIZATION will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
LATIN WEEK
FILM: PUERTO RICO
MONDAY, MARCH 24 1980 7:00 P.M. JAYHAWK ROOM, KANSAS UNION
FILMS:
SIMPLEMENTE JENNY & THE DOUBLE DAY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980 7:00 P.M. 4025 WESCO
DISCUSSION BY: PROF. ELIZABETH KUENSEMF &
PROF. ROBERT OPENHEIMER
K.U. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
FILM: TUPAMAROS
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1980 7:30 P.M. JAYHAWK ROOM, KANSAS UNION
MECHA CONFERENCE "OUTLOOK TO THE 80's"
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 28-29, 1980
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JERRY APODOCA, FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO
THE WEEK IS SPONSORED BY: LATIN AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION,
WEST MESA AND MINNOLLY AFEIRS
MEGA AND MINNOLLY AFEIRS
O Sarto Inquirito
play by Alfredo DiaGomes The Holy Office
March 25-29 8:00 p.m.
Inee Tues-Sat.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL: OFFICE OF MINORITY AFFAIRS 864-4351
Vanessa Redgrave's critically acclaimed "THE PALESTINEAN"
The movie that caused an uproar at the Academy Awards
SHOWING FRIDAY, MARCH 28th HOCH AUDITORIUM
7:30 P.M.
Muslim Students Association = Kansas University
(Children under 7 not allowed) Babysitting provided
$1.00 Donation at the door
"From now on anybody who owns a factory that makes radioactive waste has to take it home with him to his house."
—— He loves you. Do what he says.
A MARTIN BREGMAN Production ALAN ARKIN "SIMON"
With **MADELINE KAHN**
Executive Producer LOUIS A. STROLLER *Produced by MARTIN BREGMAN*
Screenplay by MARSHALL BRICKMAN
Story by MARSHALL BRICKMAN & THOMAS BAUM
Directed by MARSHALL BRICKMAN *Technicolor*
© 1984 Paul Powers. All rights reserved.
**ORION ACTUATURE Release**
WARNER BROS. Pictures **A Warner Communications Company**
OPENING THIS MONTH AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU!