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this magazine, loftily observed in the course of a favorable review of the Vasarely show at Pace that the work showed that Vasarely had a good understanding of what the new American artists were doing! What inso lent twaddle! Vasarely has been painting Vasarely for as long as some of Miss Rose's proteges have been alive almost. 

In the next number Otto Hahn takes Tapie to task too.

No, I don't see anything in Gassiot-Talabot's articles that adds up to Gaullisme. He is 1) a Frenchman with faith in his countrymen who doesn't like to see them put down, and 2) a critic who fells that there are still some good, some interesting (if not sensational) young French artists around. 

Well, so much for that. But I appreciate your sending me the clippings; it is good to keep track of what one's writers write elsewhere.  

My new Lugano review is shaping up nicely. I've got what I need for the first number and will bring it out the end of January-- a beautifully printed thing, with poems, a chapter from a novel, critism [[criticism]], essays, less topical than Art International and for that reason perhaps more solid. Now I've go to see if I can scare up a few ads from important galleries, to set an example for others to follow later. I've been busy rounding up subscriptions and getting the material together for the first number that I haven't had time to go after advertising. I've written to only a handful of people about that so far, and only in New York, but those I've written(Kootz, George Staempfil, Leo, and Harry Abrams) have all come through with pages. I wonder if you would be disposed to take a page too, in the first number. ? The page measures 20 X 25 cm. to the edges, and may be had at an introductory bargain price of $ 150(after the first issue it will be 250).

Anyway, Happy New Year. As ever, Jim