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...Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts honored Spanish-born Painter Pablo Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like...
Josef Albers' Homage to the Square: "Ascending," at the brand-new Whitney Museum on 54th Street, looks almost identical in composition with the squares Albers has been painting for some time. A brilliant teacher (and chairman of Yale University's Department of Design), Albers considers all his own work experimental. By painting squares within squares of varying colors, he achieves an endless variety of odd, beautiful and sometimes disturbing effects. "I push my colors," he explains soberly. "I want to push a green so it looks red." When students complain that to "push" colors Albers limits himself...
Gibbet & Knot. Major André of the 54th Foot Regiment became the goat of the sorry affair. Handsome, cultivated, a poet-painter as well as adjutant general of the British Army in America, he was as eager for glory as Arnold. Let the American traitor turn over the fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier...
...about: "Whenever a number of intellectuals get together to debate the grave problems of our world, at least one of them, in an effort to ennoble the discussion, will begin talking of the Good, the True . . . After having heard the term 'freedom of thought' mentioned for the 54th time, a stale smell gradually invades the room, an odor which reminds me of fried fish. Discussions about Freedom are bound to remain sterile, unless we take this word down from its high pedestal and place it on a more humble, concrete basis . . . the freedom to leave...
...evening wear, there are dozens of bars with entertainment and thousands without. In the former category, Ryan's, Condon's, and Birdland, all discussed elsewhere on these pages, stick to instrumental jazz. So does Nick's, Seventh Ave, and 10th, where Muggsy Spanier is the feature, and The Embers, 54th near Third, with Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo. Irving Fields, and on Sundays Bobby Hackett...