Word: art
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof was crowded last week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise...
Critics have said that the most artistically significant things in U. S. architecture are not skyscrapers or state capitols but grain-elevators, barns, oil-cracking stills. They say that because the grain-elevator is not plastered with irrelevant art and decoration, because the barn was not preconceived in Paris or Athens, because these buildings are simple, sincere and to-the-point. they are Good...
...American Art Annual Sculptor Dreyfuss is listed as a sculptor and writer, pupil of George Grey Barnard, member of the Art Students' League of New York, sometime Instructor in Modeling at Cooper Union, Manhattan. Among his works is the Arsenal Park Memorial in Pittsburgh. His wealthy family say he is insane. They want him locked...
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...
Cross-featured, huge, is Mexico's genial Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6). Expression of proletariat life is his art; conversation his hobby. Last week through his art and his hobby Artist Rivera became the centre of a political controversy...