[ePub] Getting Started in Ballet: A Parent's Guide to Dance Education by Anna Paskevska in Arts-Photography

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In 1959; Richard Bellamy was a witty; poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. By 1965; he was representing Mark di Suvero; was the first to show Andy Warholrsquo;s pop art; and pioneered the practice of ldquo;off-siterdquo; exhibitions and introduced the new genre of installation art. As a dealer; he helped discover and champion many of the innovative successors to the abstract expressionists; including Claes Oldenburg; James Rosenquist; Donald Judd; Dan Flavin; Walter De Maria; and many others. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street; Bellamy thrived on the energy of the sixties. With the covert support of Americarsquo;s first celebrity art collectors; Robert and Ethel Scull; Bellamy gained his footing just as pop art; minimalism; and conceptual art were taking hold and the art world was becoming a playground for millionaires. Yet as an eccentric impresario dogged by alcohol and uninterested in profits or posterity; Bellamy rarely did more than show the work he loved. As fellow dealers such as Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis capitalized on the stars he helped find; Bellamy slowly slid into obscurity; becoming the quiet man in oversize glasses in the corner of the room; a knowing and mischievous smile on his face.Born to an American father and a Chinese mother in a Cincinnati suburb; Bellamy moved to New York in his twenties and made a life for himself between the Beat orbits of Provincetown and white-glove events like the Guggenheimrsquo;s opening gala. No matter the scene; he was always considered ldquo;one of us;rdquo; partying with Norman Mailer; befriending Diane Arbus and Yoko Ono; and hosting or performing in historic Happenings. From his early days at the Hansa Gallery to his time at the Green to his later life as a private dealer; Bellamy had his finger on the pulse of the culture. Based on decades of research and on hundreds of interviews with Bellamyrsquo;s artists; friends; colleagues; and lovers; Judith E. Steinrsquo;s Eye of the Sixties rescues the legacy of the elusive art dealer and tells the story of a counterculture that became the mainstream. A tale of money; taste; loyalty; and luck; Richard Bellamyrsquo;s life is a remarkable window into the art of the twentieth century and the making of a generationrsquo;s aesthetic.--"Bellamy had an understanding of art and a very fine sense of discovery. There was nobody like him; I think. I certainly consider myself his pupil." --Leo Castelli