Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrible mural by Pablo Picasso in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris [Dec. 8]. And if British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure was carved out of travertine from Michelangelo's old quarry at Carrara, this is certainly the only possible connection it could have with real art. It might just as well have been carved out of reinforced concrete or, better still, left out altogether...
Anthony Eden. "I admired not only his brilliant intelligence, his knowledge of affairs, and the charm of his manners, but also the art he had of creating and maintaining around the negotiation a sympathetic atmosphere which favored agreement when that was possible and avoided wounds when...
...Art thou the second coming of Christ?" he is asked, and his admirers call him their messiah. To the whites, he is either the biggest demagogue to come down the pike, or a deluded mystic, and in either case dangerous. Never has Dr. Banda appeared in better-or worse-form than last week, on his return from Nkrumah's All-African Peoples Conference in Accra. The experience had been heady...
Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one oil by John Singer Sargent for Rockefeller's use in the executive mansion...
Tucked into a dip in the plateau to avoid challenging the famed outline of the Parthenon, Athens' Acropolis Museum is an inconspicuous but memorable shrine to the great moment when European art was born. In little more than a century, Greek sculpture passed from the archaic, which was mainly imported, to the classical and home grown. The austere Greek figures of the 6th century B.C. gave way to the playful and nearly human marbles of the 5th century. This moment of new birth, perhaps the most important in art history, is newly documented as the Acropolis Museum celebrates...