Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...
...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...
Last fortnight Miss Curran and the Pennsylvania Museum's Director Fiske Kimball arranged a big exhibition of WPA art, the first time Philadelphia's Relief artists have had a decent chance to show their work under public auspices. The Philadelphia Record's Dorothy Grafly, ablest art critic in the city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation...
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which has in the past bridled at the sound of the Barnes tom-toms, was quietly preparing its 133rd annual exhibition of U. S. art. At the other end of the parkway from the museum, the academy last week remained equally remote from the attentions of Dr. Barnes and the Artists' Union. First visitors to the exhibition, however, thought that past criticisms from both sources had perhaps stimulated the academy's most vivid and inclusive show in years...
Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...