Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division of International Communications, both aimed straight at "relations with our Latin American republics." Last week Secretary Hull and Under-Secretary Welles announced that the Division of Cultural Relations will be launched forthwith. Duties: "The exchange of professors, teachers, and students . . . cooperation in the field of music, art, literature . . . international radio broadcasts . . . generally, the dissemination abroad of the representative intellectual and cultural work of the U. S." First year's appropriation...
...Armageddon by Harold Haydon Nelson of the University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...
...market. When he began factory work in 1903 he had to show industrialists that he could design cheaper and more efficient buildings than their own engineers. He still has to. Kahn clients see eye to eye with an architect who says, as Kahn says, "Architecture is 90% business, 10% art...
...paradox that by modern standards such Kahn buildings as the Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert...
...public galleries in the U. S., Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was the first to draw upon the Federal Art Project for an important exhibition. The potentialities shown in the Museum's selection, called "New Horizons in American Art," elevated many a New Yorker's indifferent eyebrows (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936). In other cities, galleries have prudently gone slow on WPA exhibitions, waiting for quality to accumulate. Last week Chicago's great Art Institute, able to skim the cream from more than three years' work by local artists, opened the biggest, handsomest WPA show...