THE Chicago Art Institute's 61st annual roundup of contemporary American painting and sculpture, which opens next week, will prove once again that the nation's artists are mostly sold on some form of abstraction. Doubtless most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even intelligibility, contest. But ordinary visitors, to whom the latest fashions in art are immaterial, may find Jack Levine's trend-bucking canvas (opposite) one of the most rewarding things in the show.
Levine himeself...
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