Word: 57th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Manhattan's waning art season put forth a bright, belated bloom last week-a 57th Street show of sophisticated, slaphappy paintings by Writer-Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, 53. Done mostly with gouache, "because it comes in charming little French jars and doesn't smell," they spoofed and also celebrated the drifting, uppercrust, good-time world that Bemelmans inhabits. Their style mingled childlike cheer and simplicity with penknife stabs of caricature...
...most straightforward and unambiguous art exhibits in Manhattan last week occupied a table in an upstairs room of a 57th Street gallery. It was a polyptych of five small panels hinged together and somewhat pompously titled A Tribute to the American Working People. The four side panels represent a county fair, a parlor, a farm and a schoolroom, all crowded. The center panel portrays a workman with the expression of a weary Punch, standing before a green factory facade full of faces...
Somerset Maugham's Trio closes up shop Monday at the Sutton, 57th and Second, after a long, profitable run. Odette, a new British adventure story at the lush Park' Avenue Theatre at 59th Street, concerns itself with the true-to-life spy work of a female relative of Winston Churchill. Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard head the cast. The Golden Salamander is at the Little Carnegie, next to the big on West 57th, with Anouk as an extra feature. Believe it or not, Red Shoes is still playing, now wedded to intermezzo with Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman...
...Gallery-lined 57th Street and its environs offered bronzes by Britain's Henry Moore (at the Buchholz), Grandma Moses' bucolic pleasantries (at the St. Etienne), happy bloops and squiggles by Spain's Joán Miró (at the Pierre Matisse), a fine collection of Ming porcelains (at the Komor), and antiseptic semi-abstractions by Charles Sheeler (at the Downtown). The esoteric fringe, always as long as an Easter bunny's ears, had a bright item: luminescent pictures by Marie Menken (at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), which were guaranteed to be visible even in rooms...
September Affair enters the hollowed Radio City Music Hall today, with Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, and Jessica Tandy. The Second Woman brings Robert Young and Betsy Drake to the Rivoli screen today. The Little Carnegie, next door to the big one on West 57th, presents The Dancing Years with the gaiety of old Vienna and a ballet corps which reportedly does justice to the music...