Show The Utah Statesman Wednesday February 18 1981 Page 9 i (JN refuses works of art TTED NATIONS (AP)— TTie United is looking Us gift horses in the mouth telling its 154 memliers to slop sending Briton that stands in front of the headquarters building Lrquhart savs he has a sjMit all pn ked out in the garden adjoining the funeral Assembly wing He hopes to have the new bronze resting on its plinth by nest summer UN guardians of the arts are less likely to go along so readily with another promised contribution a big Soviet painting depicting war and jieace in Furojie According to U N sources however Sec l Kurt Waldheim is already committed to the painting and the artist has puked out a blank wall in the Indonesian Ixiunge outside the General Assembly Hall Two other contributions caught the United Nations by surprise in 1959 One was a model of the first Sputnik satellite which was launched in Oc toler 1957 The other was a bronze statue inspired by the Bible The work's title "la-- t Us Beat Swords into Plowshares" is based on Isaiah 24 The "socialist realism” style figure of a blac ksmith with raised hammer and bent sword has long been called "Mister Muscles Lrquhart likes the Sputnik but for artistu and not scientific reasons He finds the model satellite which is suspended from the ceiling in the public lobby imaginative in design rather "like a modern sculpture" When the marble and glass headquarters budding on New York’s Last River cqiened in 1950 there were miles of naked walls lion rksofart Privately UN officials rate ir past contributions as worthless and ipalling "You'll find everything here from the tless to things 1 wouldn't give you 50 for” rommented one official who ilomatit ally requested anonymity The United Nations’ smattering of art its ims includes a Marc Chagall stained glass Wl memorializing Secretary General Dag lwnmerskjold and 15 others killed with him a 1961 African plane crash “Christ rucified' ' bv f re tic h painter Georges Duault a gilt trom Pope Paul VI a majestic burial mantle from Peru and Lhird centurv Romano-Afrian mosaic floor retary-Gerirra- c im Tunisia Brian Lrquhart an under-se- c retary-generio heads the I N art approval committee sit was necessary to susfiend the ing o keep the m turning into gift- modern UN headquarters "The Old Curiosity need are more works of real than those with messages “that r likely to go out of date" work by renowned British dptor Henry Moore fits Urquhart’s bill oore’s brone abstract of a reclining figure omisrd long lielore the moratorium on art i complement a high 55-to- n We by Barbara Hepwonh a fellow I "What sse ' rather Along-awaite- y 21-lo- 'Elephant 'Racing Bull' lead Oscar nominations HOLLYWTXID (AP)— 7he Elephant Man and Raging Bull scored eight nominations apiece yesterday to lead the 53rd an nual ( )sc ar race Coal Miner 't Daughter followed with seven nominations and Fame Ordinary People and Test were voted tin eac h Roliert Dr Niro who gained some 70 pounds to portray the latter-da- y Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull was nominated as first ac tor Others named as best actor: Roliert Duvall The Great San-iJohn Hurt The Elephant Man Jack Lemmon Tribute Prter O’Toole The Stunt Man Mary T yler Moore playing her first feature dramatic role in Ordinary People also won her first Oscar nomination Others named for liest actress: Ellen Burstyn Resurrection Goldie Hawn Private Benjamin Gena Rowlands' Gloria Sissy Spacek Coal Aimer i Daughter Nominees for best picture of 1980: Coal Miner's Daughter The Elephant Alan Ordinary People Raging Bull and Ten Jason Robards collec ted his third nomination as supporting actor for playing tycoon Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (Xher nominees were: Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton Ordinary People Michael O’Keefe The Great San tint Joe Pesci Raging Bull hva 1 Galhenne was nominated as best supporting actress for her role in Resurrection Other nominees were: Eileen Bren nan Private Benjamin inside Moves Scarwid Howard Cathy Moriarty Raging and Mary Steenburgen Bull Diana Melvin and Roman Polanski won his third nomination for direction with the French-mad- e Test Other directors were: David Lynch The Elephant Man Ruben Rrdfoed Ordinary fpetie Martin Scorcese Raging Bull and Richard Rush The Kmt Mam Cc: TTAtB TTIcDO Odd ZtQ'CO ©ocbD C?c!r7cr!rj Cel) 3 U:C3 to t:C3 Friday Feb 23 C:£3 to 2:S3 All MicjhQ EnCoptolnrac-n- Lctr'? fiw D"r’2"7Cl G M3gfoC AC ITfao £©v3os Musis by i GcJCb LoScnro Cciiucco no poojBo Co LJUL J ?-- v fc CcnCooto a Gccc CloZt'J Czz?cj(--D |