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ARTFORUM
723 1/2 NORTH LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90069
PHONE 657-6780

MESSAGE

TO
Dan Flavin
Department of Art
University of North Carolina
[[strikethrough]] Chk [[/strikethrough]] Chapel Hill, N [[strikethrough]] R [[/strikethrough]]orth Carolina

DATE 2/1/67

Dear Dan,

Thanks for your letter: my, my I've never known an artist to pay such detailed attention to what not even the critics but merely the writers have to say. Anyway, rest, perturbed spirit: Fidel Danieli has, in the last ARTFORUM, the finest piece yet written on Flavin. Nope, you have nowhere near achieved the [[strikethrough]] mar [[/strikethrough]] remarkable feat of going from scorn to [[strikethrough]] pria [[/strikethrough]] praise to scorn: all the people who know whats g[[strikethrough]] i [[/strikethrough]]oing on are pretty universal in digging your work.

Listen, I don't know what in the world is going on between Mel Bochner and Max Kosloff, but if you are in contact with Bochner, would you please ask him to send his st[[strikethrough]] i[[/strikethrough]] uff directly to me if there is some kind of confl [[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]]ict? Max usually does that himself, with a note giving his opinion, but your description seems to suggest that Bochner hasn't even submitted anything, but is being put off [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] by cocktail party conversation.

Regards to you and Sonja from the dark lady and [[strikethrough]] fa [[/strikethrough]] the fair lady, and from me, of course, 

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Phil


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