Lausanne, Switzerland—People ask “what are you doing over here?” I have two answers: 1)Writing about art. 2)Writing about art and technology. Answer number 2 tends to make eyes wander and smiles become transparently blank. “Hmm, that’s very interesting,” is a listener’s likely reply. Or: “Art
Paris—The experience has unfolded numerous times in America, but for Paris it was a first: the curtain goes up to reveal an empty, darkened stage. Then, rising lights the colors of an acid head’s rainbow begin carving out planes of space in the black neutrality.
This Stockholm composer is making music. Program music, you might say. His orchestra: Computers. The tempo is in real-time, not 4/4. For more input (Yes?No?), go to step two… Stockholm—To the uninitiated ear, electronic music and musique concrete still tend to sound like a mixture
September 10, 1968 Stockholm—An art museum is much more, of course, than the naked eye can see. Stockholm’s Moderna Museet is almost hidden from the casual tourist’s view. Secluded on a pine-studded island across the water from the imposing Royal Palace and steeply cobbled Old
July 15, 1968 Mr. Oberbeck is an Alicia Patterson Fund award winner, on leave from Newsweek, Inc. This article may be published, with credit to S. K. Oberbeck and the Alicia Patterson Fund. London—Of about 40 movies I saw here in the past months, far
