Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Washington never lived in Washington. During his Presidency the Capital was in Manhattan and in Philadelphia. ‡ Art. VII. The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same...
...young man that he was an illegitimate son of a noble family. As a fachook (noble bastard) young Maximilian belonged to a well-recognized caste in Croatia under the gay regime of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition in the year Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand happened to get fatefully shot, not in Croatia, but in Serbia. Artist Vanka kept on painting, after...
...split second pause, Times Square loafers thought of almost anything but what followed around the corner: ABSTRACT ART...
...collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which the Baroness was named curator. To educate the U. S. public in the debatable serenities and excitements of painting which represents nothing but colored space, the Foundation is chartered to provide lectureships, scholarships, exhibitions and publications. Wrote Solomon Guggenheim to his new trustees: "I desire to encourage...
Having inched the American Medical Association into a position where doctors could see the prudence of recommending the teaching of contraception in medical schools, and of investigating the materials, devices and methods of the art of birth control (TIME, June...