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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...
...warlocks and whirligigs of surrealism fall emphatically into the category damned by numbskulled Nazis as "degenerate" art, most people thought-if they thought about it at all-that the Nazi invasion of France would spell surrealism's doom. Not at all. Surrealism simply moved to Manhattan. Last week 57th Street's galleries broke out with more showings of surrealist art than Manhattan had seen in many a year...
Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...
...public Grant Wood was a homely, honest lowan whose art, unlike most of his contemporaries', spoke directly to the man in the street. His meticulous paintings of plain U.S. landscapes and plain U.S. people were hung in the smart art salons of 57th Street; they also appeared in ads and on magazine covers (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). After Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Wood's austere portrait of the typical Iowa farm couple, American Gothic, had become the most popular of all U.S. paintings...