·Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle, critic, exhibition designer, writer, born August 6 1916; died October 12 2001.
According to Jamie Andrews, a curator of the exhibition The Writer in the Garden, the notion of time in gardening - its cyclical nature - was fundamental to Jarman's aesthetics.
But the Bryant Park exhibition of "Writer's Block," which follows a showing earlier this year at the Boston Public Library, goes beyond being another commemoration of a long-ago book burning.
Dozens of items from his collection are on loan to the 92nd Street Y for a multidisciplinary program that includes an art exhibition, a writers' panel, a dance and an educational program for children.
The Dwyer, which since opening three years ago has attracted 75,000 visitors to visual art exhibitions, readings, writers' workshops, children's educational programs and music and theater performances — all free or low-cost — has run into major financial problems.
When they played the music, everyone clustered around them: graphic designers said they wanted to make visuals for the music, artists said they wanted to play the songs at their exhibitions, and writers said they would build science fiction stories around them.
The novelty piece, by Mr. Nelson's design director, Irving Harper, is a classic of the Herman Miller catalog and can be seen in the exhibition "George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher," opening Thursday at the Yale School of Architecture.
It began when James Knowlson, a young academic working in the French department, decided to mount a Beckett exhibition, after the writer was awarded a Nobel prize for literature in 1969.
While "The City of K". provides a decidedly narrower experience, Mr. Insua does deserve real credit for rethinking the customary approach to an exhibition of a writer's leavings.
It was precisely this quality of the ballpoint -- as a meeting ground of the public and the personal, the conscious and the unconscious, the high and the low -- that attracted the art dealer Kerry Schuss, who mounted the exhibition with the writer and art dealer Geoffrey Young.
