Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month ago President Grover Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation found himself besieged by Manhattan artists. Their grievance: that the Fair had failed to allocate ground or building for an art exhibition (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week Mr. Whalen and his directors faced growing criticism from another quarter. On view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were two sets of pictures, contrasted with a minimum of comment: 1) sketches for houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World...
...Objection to any work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity seeker, forthright Mr. Connick objected to other pieces as artistically inadequate, in which he was at least partially right...
Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Carter Coal at once sought an injunction against them on pea-sized coal prices, on the ground that the actions of the Commission were unconstitutional, and last...
Exhibitions of American book designs, early Celtic literature, and Japanese art from the Primitives to Hiroshige are being shown in Widener and Robinson Hall this week it was announced last night...
...Widener comes a display of books designed by Bruce Rogers, noted American designer and formerly printing adviser to the University Press. Also in Widener is a collection of early Irish, Welsh and Scottish books and manuscripts in their native tongue, while at Robinson are 25 examples of Japanese art from the best painters of the period...