Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrangements are being made by members of the new "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art", for acquiring rooms in the Harvard Cooperative Building on Harvard Square, it was announced yesterday by the officers of the Society...
Many of the leading art dealers and patrons of Boston and New York have volunteered to assist the Society in attaining their object, "To bring a cross section of contemporary art before the eyes of Greater Boston by means of a series of monthly exhibitions...
...obtained to total $6000. However, objects loaned by dealers will be on sale or obtainable through orders. So far, this total of contributions has not quite been reached, but confidence was expressed on the part of the executives that it would be soon. Many New York and Boston art patrons have supported the work generously while a general interest in the movement is evident in art circles...
Black Sadie is a common cornfield nigger raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks...
...Have you ever studied dramatic art...