CITY EDITION
 
DONALD JUDD, SCULPTOR, IS DEAD AT 65 by Roberta Smith
"Donald Judd, one of the foremost American artists of the
postwar era and a major figure in the Minimal Art movement,
died yesterday at New York Hospital in Manhattan. He was
65...the cause was lymphoma, said his son, Flavin." (p. 50)
 
MUNCH'S 'THE SCREAM' STOLEN FROM EXHIBIT (AP)
OSLO--"Two theives broke through a window of the National
Art Museum and cut a wire holding the painting to the wall,
then left the wire cutters on the museum floor, police said."
(p. 3)
 
EASY AS PIE? NOT IN NEW MEXICO TOWN by David Margolick
"Conjuring up aromatic images of home and truck stop, Pie Town,
a mile west of the Continental Divide, has always drawn
people...in 1940, Russell Lee, a Farm Security Administration
photographer, drove from Amarillo, Tex., and captured
the indomitability and interdependence of its people,
primarily homesteaders from Texas fleeing the Dust Bowl
and Depression." (p. 18)
 
COMPUTER-AGE TOTS TRADING BUILDING BLOCKS FOR SOFTWARE
by Joshua Mills
"Call it lapware or totware, computer software is embracing
younger children than ever before -- and vice versa." (p. 1,32)
 
VIDEOTAPE OF A CALIFORNIA EXECUTION IS DESTROYED (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO--"A videotape of the execution of a convicted
murderer, Robert Alton Harris, in 1992 has been destroyed on
a judge's order, court records show." (p. 35)
 
BLACK STUDIES TO BE FOCUS OF AN INSTITUTE: CUNY SEES NO
RIVALRY WITH JEFFRIES'S WORK by Maria Newman
"The City University of New York and City College have
established an African-American research institute separate from
City College's black studies department, which along with
its chairman, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, has been at the center
of controversy...Its head will be Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, a retired
Yale psychologist who was acting chairman of the City College
black studies program for 18 months until last August." (p. 41, 44)
 
NOT AN URBANIST, ONLY A GENIUS by Paul Goldberger
"Frank Lloyd Wright's image of the city's future was lifeless. It's
his buildings that keep on radiating vitality." (NYT Magazine, p. 48-9)
 
BOOK REVIEW: IN SHORT
'A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS BY FERNAND BRAUDEL. ALLEN LANE/
PENGUIN, $30 by David Walton
"...the last book by the french historian Fernand Braudel, who died
in 1985, to be translated into English." (NYT Book Review, p. 18)
 
That's all.
 
Robbin Murphy
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