Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free, public, ilustrated lecture on "Byzantine Church Architecture" will be given this afternoon at 4 o'clock, by Kenneth J. Conant, Professor of Architecture, at the Fogg Art Museum...
...Byzantine Church Architecture" will be the subject of an illustrated public lecture by Kenneth J. Conant '15, Professor of Architecture, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum...
...time-honored gripe of U. S. artists is that big museums do not buy enough works by living artists. This is true, but it is not true without qualifications which irate artists usually omit. Last year the favorite butt of these attacks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bought no less than 28 paintings by contemporary U. S. artists, including Waldo Peirce, William Gropper, George Biddle. In general, museums have not only loosened up in this respect, but have begun to spend less money on the acquisition of sacred masterpieces and more on a job just as essential to the artist...
...ceremonial museum shows of U. S. painting, artists reach their widest public. Conspicuously successful in 1937 were the biennial show of the Corcoran Art Gallery in April, the U. S. room at the Carnegie International, the more select and sparkling show of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum in November, and the even more select exhibition of "Paintings for Paris" which the Museum of Modern Art put on display during November and December-paintings by 36 U. S. artists chosen to be among those whose work the Museum plans to take to Paris this spring for the first big exhibition...
...weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most jerry-built, C. Day Lewis; most prosy and homeliest, Louis MacNeice...