Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such is the entry of a new museum opened last week for the benefit of the Red Cross by jet-haired Miss Guggenheim, wife of Painter Max Ernst. Under the name Art of This Century, Miss Guggenheim's four-roomed gallery (30 West 57th) is to be a permanent show. All owned by herself, the collection of 171 exhibits (14 by Husband Ernst) is reputed to be the biggest of its kind...
...Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade, the yellowed pages of ancient books. In his tallboy, lined with crimson plush, are row upon row of Buddhas, Oriental gods of war, of laughter, or mercy, of unimaginable things. Mr. Pushman says gently...
Every school day since 1899 Teacher Bridgman has marched with corpulent dignity through the gloomy doors of the Art Students League on 57th Street. Says he: "I have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged...
Europe's refugees, made shrewd by wars and revolutions, long ago discovered a special value in art-namely, it is the most golden of all gilt-edged investments. Buying by wealthy refugees last season set Manhattan's 57th Street galleries and auction houses humming like stock exchanges, helped roll up the biggest art business since...
...unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...