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I am delighted to receive this degree from a college of women.

This is a great era of change and it is very exciting to be an artist -- even with the terrible things that are going on, such as the war in Vietnam and the fact that society is almost in a state of chaos. In reviewing the International Show in New Delhi a critic refers to the American Section which was devoted to examples of the currently moribund  minimal-conceptual esthetic debacle, and tells how may Indian artists found the American exhibit insulting and withdrew their work. Things move so fast today that before a movement dies the next movement is already felt, so you are coming onto the art scene when something positive could take over.

Destruction and bitter criticism are a reflection of the overall picture. However, great attention is being paid to art and the artist is being lifted out of his idiosyncratic alienation (witness me) and all society is taking an interest in him. Giocometti is a tale of what was and the great Picasso reviewing all art and presenting it with a destructive virtuosity is perhaps the end of an era.

The women's lib movement is giving the women the right to openly practice what I had to do in an underground way. I have always believed that women should reset and refuse to accept all the gratuitous insults that men impose upon them. The woman artist is especially vulnerable and could be robbed of her confidence.

There is a great play by Athol Fugard, an African, called "Boesman and Lena. The hero is played by James Earl Jones and Lena by Ruby Dee. After James Earl Jones starred in "The Great White Hope" on Broadway he deliberately chose to play this story of life in South Africa at an off-Broadway theater. In this play he is the voice of the most oppressed and crushed. Boesman completely deprived by the white man, with al lhis worldly goods on his back and the back of his wife Lena, takes it out on her. It is a great play of today. An interesting footnote: Athol Fugard was not permitted by his government to come to American for the opening of his play.