What will U.S. art be like, say ten years hence? Last week the small but influential Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass, was supplying an answer of a sort.
On the theory that "the artists of tomorrow are the art students of today," Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had gathered 113 prize student pictures from 25 of the country's best art schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result—a show that was technically expert, sparkling...
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