Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family with two boys who have never been enrolled in school lives on a small farm in Sheffield, Mass. Both parents read to their sons, aged eleven and nine, take them on hikes and involve them in farm chores; their mother, a college graduate, also takes them to special art, poetry and music classes in town. "They decide when and whether they'll learn something," says she. "We help them when they ask, but I'm more interested in how happy people are than if they can stand on their heads...
DIED. Giorgio de Chirico, 90, Italian painter, whose early surrealist works helped define 20th century art; of a heart attack; in Rome (see ART...
Bell said he disagreed with Gould on this point because teaching is an imaginative art and thus should be a minor emphasis in a "great university dedicated to testing, challenging, and creating knowledge...
...show entitled "Edvard Munch, Symbols and Images," which opened Nov. 11 in the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., is a great event. As Art Historian Robert Rosenblum writes in its catalogue introduction, "Even the most Paris- centered interpretations of the history of postimpressionist art have been obliged to consider the grand and disturbing presence of the strange Norwegian master...
Some of Munch's paintings - notably The Scream, 1893, with its genderless homunculus squalling in loneliness on a bridge against the thick ropy sky of evening-are among the most reproduced images in early modern art. Yet Munch's major paintings are not well known here in the original because most of his best work stayed in Norway, distributed among several museums. The National Gallery's show, which will go to no other museum, has 245 paintings, prints and drawings on loan from Norwegian collections; it is the most complete Munch exhibition ever held...