CITY EDITION
 
GIULIANI AGREES TO AVERT CUTS FOR ARTS WITH DONATION PLAN
by Steven Lee Myers
"A week after proposing budget cuts for the arts in New York City,
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an agreement yesterday
in which the city would restore the cuts and provide even more
money--but only after the city's cultural institutions
raised matching contributions from private sources." (p. A1)
 
CURRENTS by Suzanne Slesin
NEW APPRECIATION FOR THE 'UGLIES'
"Traveling around Iowa, [Barbara Hauben Ross, a New York interior
designer] stopped at junk stores and flea markets to buy the
fancifully shaped American art pottery, especially pieces marked
Red Wing, a company that was started in 1878 and closed in 1967...
Now, she is ready to sell some of it...priced from $65 to $300
each. Telephone: (212) 832-6640." (p. C3)
 
BERTRAM CLARKE, 83, ART-BOOK DESIGNER AND TYPOGRAPHER
by Rita Reif
"Bertram L. Clarke, a prominent designer of art books and
typography, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was
83NDAVID WAY, A PRINTER AND MUSICOLOGIST, 75
"David Jacques Way, a fine-arts printer who became a musicologist
and the owner of D. Jacques Way & Zuckermann Harpsichords, died
on Friday in Stonington, Conn. He was 75." (p. B10)