Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History for Support. Will the paintings be found? History is full of successful art thefts. A Louvre workman named Vincenzo Peruggia carted away the $1,000,000 Mona Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found...
Beneath the arch formed by two gigantic elms on the grassy southern bank of the St. John River at Fredericton, N.B., some 1,000 art buffs and dignitaries gathered one day last week for the dedication of Canada's newest art gallery. "This is not the first contribution that Lord Beaverbrook has made to the arts in Canada," said Master of Ceremonies William G. Constable, onetime curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "But it is incomparably the greatest." On the platform behind him, Lord Beaverbrook beamed at the crowd...
Critic by Acquisition. Beaverbrook's biggest donation is not the museum but most of the 300-odd paintings hanging in it. Valued at $2,100,000, Beaverbrook's collection provides the gallery with a comprehensive sampling of British art from Hogarth to Francis Bacon, representative works of nearly all Canadian artists of stature, plus a scattered few paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn...
...North Kansas City Bowl has an aviary (with a fulltime, $5,000-a-year bird keeper) and an art gallery, hopes to contribute proceeds from the sale of paintings to local charities...
...Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's writing was rich in fringe benefits. There is his animistic imagery: a stopped clock face wears "the waxed moustache of ten minutes to two," the first spring zephyrs are "cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning, e.g., "optimystics," "sexaphone." Wit and humor often sugar-coat horror in Nabokov's novels, but the poignance of exile haunts his pages like...