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A n n u a lFall Arts PreviewMuseum HeraldsAmerican RevivalsBY LIBBY HAYMANIt promises to be a good year for visual arts as The Brooklyn Museum%u2019s 1979-80 season opens with a long awaited show which assembles the works of American artists from 1876 to 1979 - The American Renaissance. If the word %u201c renaissance%u201d conjures up Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli in your mind, the Museum will now give it a new meaning for you.The new exhibit, prepared by Dianne Pilgrim, Curator of Decorative Arts at The Brooklyn Museum, as well as by art historians from the University of Virginia and the National Collection of Fine Arts, will bring together more than 200 works including paintings, architectural designs, ceramics, and much more.Unifying the works is the theme of the late nineteenth and early iwentieth century that %u201c arts and culture could improve the moral and material well-being of all citizens,%u201d as the shows creators put it. The exhibit opens on October 13 and will run until December 30, then go to several other cities. Talks, a symposium, and even a %u201c Festival of Fair,%u201d on October 21 and 21, will keep the exhibit company.Though %u201cThe American Renaissance,%u201d funded by the National Endowment for (he Humanities, is this year%u2019s biggest event at the Museum, a number of other exhibitions have been mounted, and several more will come.In the print gallery, there is a constant supply of shows. The current offering, Richard Clauder%u00bb* - - i - 1 r v _____ : ____ J L il l - l ll U l ll l . 1 1 U U O u u u u i u v n u g j ,presents the work of a contemporary printmaker noted for black and white portrayals of subjects from nature, will run until November 4. It will be followed byan exhibit of New Acquisitions.In January, the Graphics of Richard Anuskicwicz will be displayed, and in March, Prints and Mylar Drawings of Peter Milton. The Print Gallery will close the year with a major photography show, \May and June.The Museum%u2019s fourth Floor has two shows going on throughout the fall. In the Decorative Arts Gallery, a show has been prepared from the M useum%u2019s permanent collection consisting of objects collected and commissioned bv Americans travelling abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Called %u201c innocents A broad,\complements %u201c The American Renaissance\The other fourth floor show is a costume display called \Revivals,%u201d again featuring late19th Century works. The garments arc products of the House of Worth, where recreations of clothing of other epochs were featured. The fourth floor will also host a welcome re-opening this winter when the 50th Anniversary Period Rooms, which have been renovated and refurbished, will again be on public view starting December 1.A full schedule of exhibitions is already planned for The Brooklyn M useum%u2019s Community Gallery, where Brooklyn artists can feel right at home. Richard Waller, who has been drawing on the vast production of Brooklyn%u2019s artists for shows for several years, has combined some standard annual events with some new ideas.Thf> chow in thr> r,9llnrv now icthe Clinton Hill Artists^ exhibit, with works by 18 artists, produced in cooperation with the Society for Clinton Hill. The paintings,C o n tin u ed on P a c e 15In October Senta Driver%u2019s Harry will perform %u201c Running The Course%u201d at the BrooklvAcademy of Music. (Johan Elbcrs Photo). ON THE COVER: A scene from %u201c Concerto Grosso%u201d tbe performed by the Pennsylvania Ballet at BAM in November. (BAM Photo)BAM Presents Dance DiversityBY JUDITH STUARTA truly varied season awaits dance concert audiences this year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In addition to the regular treat of the excitement of the Pennsylvania Ballet performances, the various stages at BAM will play host to modern dance, experimental dance and music and ethnic dance.This year will mark the world premier of no less than three newworks for the Pennsylvanians, two by Choo San Goh and one by Dane LaFontsse. %u201c Graduation Ball,%u201d which was done on the Original Ballet Russe by David Lichine in 1940, promises to be an exceptional addition to the repertory. It is a favorite among comic ballets in the dance world.The unique collaboration of three art forms, thus three artists, has been commissioned by BAM. The American premier of %u201c Dance,%u201d anevening length ballet in five parts will ensemble and dance and projected %u2019decor%u2019 has been created by Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass and Sol Lewitt. Philip Glass developed an international audience for his music for Robert Wilson's %u201c Einstein on the Beach.%u201dThe season will open with %u201c Harry/Dance and Other Works%u201d by Senta Driver in the Lepercq Space (dates listed below). At this Continued on Page 15October 4,1979, The PHOENIX, Page 9