Part 1. DAYTON to NEW YORK CITY
Part 2. SAN FRANCISCO
Part 3. CANBERRA to PASADENA
Part 4. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
ARCATA to HAYWARD
PART 1A – DAYTON
1953 DAYTON DAILY NEWS “Ringside Seats for Mercury’s ‘Passing’ ” [FLG was President of the Junior Astronomers of Dayton Ohio & organized this observation]
1954 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE June “Boy Scouts Enact Treaty of Greene Ville” [A gathering of Eagle Scouts, including FLG]
1954 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Jun. 14 “Scouts Home; Outing Over; Finest Ever” [FLG, Senior Patrol Leader, showering outdoors in Greenville shower built by his Boy Scout troop]
1956 DAYTON DAILY NEWS May 20 “Art May Not Win A Ribbon…” by Norma Kipps [1st exhibition curated after installing the “Freedom Shrine” of historic facsimile documents in the hallway of Oakwood High School]
1958 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Feb. 16+20 “Beethoven to Elvis…” .
1961 DAYTON DAILY NEWS “Search for Answers Makes the World his Oyster…” by Maggie Fitzgibbons [1st long interview, just after return from spending a year in France, Germany, and England.]
PART 1B – NEW YORK CITY
1967 HOME FURNISHINGS DAILY Sep. 18 “Lanier Graham…a fine chess set … In the Permanent Collection” by Susan Grant {MoMA Chess Set}
1967 NEW YORK POST Oct. 10 “And you Can sit in It, too” by Susan Rogers {MoMA Design Exhibition, curated by FLG}
1967 NEW YORK TIMES Nov. 17 “…Art Nouveau Revival” by Lisa Hammel
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1968 HOME FURNISHINGS DAILY May 27 “Study a la MOMA” by Susan Grant {MoMA Design Collection)
1968 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Sept. “A New Dimension for Design Education” by JRG (J. Roger Guilfoyle) [two pages]
Apartment Interviews:
1968 NEW YORK TIMES Dec. 28 “When There’s Not Enough Room Build One” by Rita Reif {First Edition of the 1968 Interview}
1972 “A Room within a Room” in LIVING WITH BOOKS by Rita Reif
New York: New York Times Books {Second Edition of the 1968 Interview}
1969 AMERICAN HOME May “Overcoming the Limitations of a Small Apartment…”
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1969 CAVALIER June “Cavalier of the Month: Lanier Graham, A Short Course in the wearing of Many Hats – Curator, Designer, Collector, and Writer” by Parker Hodges [two pages]
1970 GLAMOUR March “Small Apartment: Bookcase Walls make a Room…” [two pages]
Guimard Interviews:
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1970 NEW YORK TIMES Mar. 8 “Le Style Guimard” {NYT Guimard treatment #1 of 4} by Rita Reif [two pages]
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1970 NEW YORK TIMES Mar. 11 “Hector Guimard: Recognition of Art Nouveau’s Pioneer Work” {NYT Guimard treatment #2 of 4} by Lisa Hammel [two pages – centerspread]
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1970 INTERIORS March “Le Style Guimard” [eight pages; four shown here]
1970 NEW YORK TIMES Mar. 22 “It’s a Long Way from 1900” {NYT Guimard treatment #3 of 4} by Ada Louise Huxable
1970 NEW YORK MAGAZINE Mar. “Back to Nature” {Guimard} by John Gruen
1970 WASHINGTON POST Mar. 29 “The Collected Art of Hector Guimard” by Meryle Secrest [four pages]
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1970 NEWSWEEK Mar. 30 “Man with the Top Hat” {Guimard} by Douglas Davis
1970 NEW YORK TIMES Apr. 18 “Hector Guimard’s Designs” {NYT Guimard treatment #4 of 4} by Marvin D. Schwartz
1970 NEW YORKER “On & Off the Avenue, About the House” {Guimard} by Janet Malcolm [three pages]
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1970 ARTFORUM June “Hector Guimard, Museum of Modern Art”
1970 HOUSE BEAUTIFUL December “Designed for Play” by Susan Grant Lewin
PART 2 – SAN FRANCISCO
1970 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER May 26 “Joined Museums name Curator” {by Alexander Fried}
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1970 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE May 28 “Reflection on War & Peace, Museum Meditation Room” by Alfred Frankenstein
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1970 CALIFORNIA LIVING July 19 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER “Frontliner – F. Lanier Graham, A Taste of His Taste” by Walter Blum [six pages]
1970 SAN FRANCISO EXAMINER July 28 “The Elegant Art of Hector Guimard” by Alexander Fried
1970 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE July 28 “For a Total Environment” {Guimard} by Thomas Albright
1970 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Dec. 22 “A Major Artistic Event” {American Paintings show} by Arthur Bloomfield
1973 SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY EXAMINER & CHRONICLE Apr. 22 “Major French Art from the Norton Simon Museum” & “Three Centuries of French Art” by Alfred Frankenstein & Alexander Fried [four pages]
1974 SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY EXAMINER & CHRONICLE “Monets at the Legion…” by Alfred Frankenstein
1974 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “Rodin Gallery Dedicated” by Alfred Frankenstein
1974 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER “A New Look in the Museums” by Alexander Fried
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1975 GALLERY GUIDE Feb “Everything you always wanted to know about Rainbows” by Jan Butterfield
1975 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Mar. 27 “Rainbow Show has a Pop Slant” by Alexander Fried
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1978 NEWSLETTER of the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES Nov. (now the California Institute of Integral Studies) “Profile of Lanier Graham” by Sandra Lewis [2 pages]
NOTE: By the Spring of 1974 I had become restless. I felt I had helped develop the potential of FAMSF as far as I could. Being attracted to the developmental phases of things, I was looking for New Horizons. Personally, I wanted to teach more. Museum work was exciting but there was too little human interaction. And I wanted to teach Sacred Art and not just the usual programs of art history. Professionally, I was concerned there was very little strategic planning in the Museum World. I was invited to a small conference organized by the President of the Norton Simon Foundation and the head of the Museums division of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Little did I know that I was being “recruited” to head a new kind of institution. The group concluded that what was needed was a dynamic combination of a Center for Advanced Study for thinking new thoughts, and a Think Tank for doing new things. Bingo! I wanted to do that! With promises of support from both of those men, I began planning my transition from being a curator to creating an institute – one that I decided to call the Institute for Aesthetic Development. Within IAD, I could teach what I wanted to teach and help create innovative educational programs for cultural institutions. IAD was incorporated in 1975 as a charitable organization with funding from my parents. I resigned from FAMSF early in 1976 and went in search of a building to be my home and the home of IAD. Thanks to The Muses, I found on Parnassus Heights, at the foot of Mt. Sutro, The Sutro House, an elegant Arts+Crafts home built by the son of the famous mayor of San Francisco about 1900. It backed on to the largest private garden in the city. It was a dream come true.
This interview was conducted by and written up by a student at CIAS. Not everything is accurate, but the general picture of the IAD headquarters at The Sutro House and of my “intuitive education” is. I did not usually discuss the spiritual teachers with whom I have studied. I regarded this as private education rather than public education, and spoke of it only with Fellow Travelers. However, at this unusual graduate school of Consciousness Studies, such “full disclosure” was mandatory. I began my work at CIAS teaching Sacred World Art. Joining that faculty was a special pleasure. The students were thirsty for deep knowledge. They were there to go beyond merely intellectual academic knowledge. The teachers of each spiritual tradition (Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.) all practiced the traditions they taught. Most wore their robes regularly. The faculty meetings were dynamic and (literally) very colorful. Later I was elevated to the Board. My primary job as Development Officer was drawing up a plan to gain accreditation and a roadmap for what the faculty, students, and administration had to do to reach that goal. I established a “Community Council” in which students, faculty, and staff all worked together on the project during meetings that I facilitated. It was fruitful to eliminate traditional “class distinctions.” They all worked very hard over a long period of time and eventually reached that goal.
1979 ASAHI SHINBUN “Form is what happens to Consciousness…” by Itsuo Sakane {First Edition of the 1979 Interview}
1984 “Form is what happens to Consciousness…” in KYOKAISEN NO TABI [TRAVELING ON THE BORDERLINE: ART, SCIENCE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS by Itsuo Sakane {Second Edition of the 1979 Interview}
PART 3 – CANBERRA & PASADENA
1985 CANBERRA TIMES Nov. “Two Centuries of Faces & Figures” by Sasha Grishin
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1987 CANBERRA TIMES July 3 “Spontaneous Gestures of Abstract Expressionism” by Sasha Grishin
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1990 LOS ANGELES TIMES Jun. 29 “Van Gogh…Inspirations of the Man & the Genius” by Suzanne Muchnic {This is one of many reviews & the first time an NSM show received international mention – that was in THE ART NEWSPAPER, Oct. 1990, p.26. Mr Simon was so pleased with the press and the book FLG wrote that he authorized a serious publications program that continued after his death.}
~ GKS
1990 INTERNATIONAL FINE ART COLLECTOR “Van Gogh Exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum” by Larry Palmer Volume 1, Number 1 [four pages]
1990 LOS ANGELES TIMES Dec. 25 “ ‘Letters’: Demystifying the Men behind the Works” by Kristine McKenna
1990 ARTWEEK Apr. 25 “Silent Cities: Atget & the Modern Urban Landscape” by Greg Schneider
1991 ARTWEEK “What would Duchamp Think? Impossible Realities: Duchamp & the Surrealist Tradition at the Simon” by Phillip Bergen
PART 4 – CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
ARCATA to HAYWARD
1997 USA TODAY Dec. 21 “Age of the Goddess” by Georgette Gouveia [four pages]
1998 COMMON GROUND May “Goddess of Health & Healing” & “The Goddess in Modern Art” [three pages] {The cover is a collage FLG conceived with Botticelli’s Venus & Kwan-Yin. The two articles are chapters from his book GODDESSES IN ART.}
1998 WORDS OF WISDOM:
A PUBLICATION OF THE WOMEN OF WISDOM FOUNDATION Spring “International Authority Comes to Seattle” {Goddess lecture}
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1998 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Oct. 23 “Cal State Hayward Curator Presents Work of ‘Global Spirit’ ” by Maitland Zane
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1999 OAKLAND TRIBUNE Dec. 21 “Big Gallery, Small Budget…Lanier Graham Curator” by Jolene Thym
2000 OAKLAND TRIBUNE Jan. 19 “Pop goes the Warhol” by Jolene Thym
2000 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward Jan. 13 “The Other Side of Andy Warhol” by Swaroopa Iyengar
2000 DAILY REVIEW Jan. “Warhol Exhibit displays his Social Consciousness” by Erin Allday
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2000 EAST BAY EXPRESS Feb. 18 “Andy’s Agenda – Warhol? In Hayward?”
2001 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward Feb. 1 “CSU Gallery Preparing Marcel Duchamp Exhibit” by Marie Santos
2001 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward July 1 “Duchamp Festival to Celebrate ‘Art of Life’ “ by Amy Doan
2001 ARTWEEK Oct. “Marcel Duchamp: Artist, Humorist, Philosopher” by Berin Golonu, pp.26-27
2001 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward Dec. 6 “Graham’s Impact Sparks more Interest in CSUH Art Department” by Victor Mendoza
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2003 ZEN & MODERN ART:
Buddhist Echoes in Western Paintings & Prints
Study Guide Appendix: “East-West Rhythms & Reverberations: An Interview with Lanier Graham” by Sylvia Medeiros {3 pages}
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2003 ARTWEEK September “Zen & Modern Art” by Debra Koppman 2003
2003 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward Oct. 16 “Filling the Circle… Tanahashi paints a Zen circle”
2003 THE PIONEER of CSU Hayward Oct. 23 “Cultures of East, West Meld in ‘Zen & Modern Art’ Show” by Cassia Clinton
2003 THE DAILY REVIEW Dec. 18 “Exhibit explores Zen Influences in Modern Art”
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2004 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE / DATEBOOK Jan. 4 “Buddha by the Bay: Eastern Religion meets the West Coast Art Scene” {re: “Zen & Modern Art” exhibition} by William S. Kowinski {phone interview 2004}
2004 SHAMBHALA SUN March “Zen & Modern Art” paragraph by FLG & the editor written with many photographs taken from “Zen & Modern Art” and placed within “Nothing Holy” by Norman Fischer {phone interview 2004; 6 pages}
2005 NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 16 “The Plaster-filled Eggshell Gambit” {re: CHESS SETS book of 1968} by Blake Eskin {phone interview 2005} (also online)
2006 BLAKE: AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY February “California State University is Hosting an Exhibition…” {Sent in by Morton Paley}
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2006 THE PIONEER of CSU, East Bay Oct. 5 “ ‘Global Vision: A Survey of World Art’ comes to CSUEB” by Anne Cunningham
2008 THE PIONEER of CSU, East Bay Oct. “World Art comes to CSUEB, Global Vision Part 2” by Casey Scheld
2009 BANHU Oct. 20 “Spiritual Vessels: Chinese Teaware by Modern Masters of the Zisha Tradition”
2009 THE PIONEER of CSU, East Bay Nov. 12 “Zisha Exhibit on Campus Isn’t Your Usual Cup of Tea” by Melanie Crawford
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2011 86 DEGREES Feb. “A New World Vision Museum” by Don Huntington
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2011 CAL STATE EAST BAY MAGAZINE Spring “A Walk to Remember ~
Donated Collection Propels Library toward 21st century Vision” by Sarah Stanek {hardcopy & online}