Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often that a second book written in the same vein as a highly successful first one can equal its predecessor in the freshness of its approach. But Anne Lindbergh's "Listen, the Wind," though not so exciting as "North to the Orient," is even more of a work of art. In describing places and experiences that have never been described before, Mrs. Lindbergh, with unusual sensibility and insight, has succeeded in making her story both beautiful and real...
...knowledge of art criticism and my command of the written work wouldn't impress a Hottentot, but even I feel justified in crying out in painful protest against the flatulent, inane farce parading in Saturday's Crimson under the pretentious rubric of "Collections and Critiques." I don't mean farce; I mean tragedy. For Fogg's current exhibition of modern French art--Degas, Daumier, Renoir, Picasso--would stir the most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant...
Ever since last winter the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has acted like a French Cabinet in a crisis. Only expert bystanders have been able to puzzle out its complicated tangle of splits, mergers, lawsuits, reorganizations. Last week, as the troupe, now sponsored by Universal Art, Inc., started its U.S. season in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, balletgoers got their first chance to see the practical results of this confusion and commotion...
...months every year the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, at other times a statue-stuffed monument to the late steel-master, becomes the world's most comprehensive salon of oil painting. The Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings...
...from the fact that almost half the artists included are on the Nazi undesirable list. Some have begun to paint ostentatiously pretty pictures to atone for past sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer to the ill wind faced by German artists...