Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marie Lani lives in the Montparnasse (art colony) section of Paris. Amused at her facial mobility, a few painters sketched her; she showed the results to her friend Galleryman Joseph Brummer. He became enthusiastic, told her to get a dozen or so and he would exhibit them. The Editions des Quatre Chemins of Paris has issued a book of reproductions of the portraits...
...formal opening of the heralded Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 16). Invitations had been sent to many a socialite and artist. With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern...
Critic Huneker was born in Philadelphia (1860), studied art in Paris, traveled widely, returned to the U. S. Traveled or settled, he produced gargantuan quantities of newspaper criticism of all the arts. Everywhere he drank beer and talked. Says Editor Mencken: "I have heard them all, but he was the best." Critic Huneker is generally credited with having been "the chief man in the movement of the '90s on this side of the ocean." Among his books: Chopin: The Man and His Music; Ivory Apes and Peacocks; Steeplejack; Painted Veils...
...third of the series of lectures by Professor Wolfgang Liepe, visiting lecturer on German Literature from the University of Kiel, will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Old Fogg Art Museum. His subject will be "Das Drama der Gegenwart...
...definite statement of the work of the commission has been made, as the study of the problem has just recently been begun. "We will study the art of examining in English," said Professor Thomas yesterday. "The results, for the most part, have proved satisfactory, but the College Entrance Examination Board has finally decided to subject the policy of the preceding years to a strict and impartial scrutiny...