Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high bank of the Hudson River near the braced, tremendous span of the George Washington Bridge, the City of New York owns 56 acres of rock ledge and greenery called Fort Tryon Park. There last week the mayor, the park commissioner, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the world's greatest philanthropist dedicated a magnificent museum of medieval art. Named "The Cloisters," this finely-proportioned granite building with red tiled roofs lacks nothing but a chapter of Benedictines to be one of the most beautiful monasteries in the world...
...escapes the clutter of ornate neoGothic, spaciously integrates a whole 12th-Century chapter house, three open cloisters, Romanesque and Gothic chapels, a refectory and several long galleries of superb sculpture and tapestries. First visitors last week could trace, in an hour's attentive ramble, the progress of medieval art from the devout symbolism of the 11th Century to the tender realism of the 15th. Biggest & best show piece: the unsurpassed Flemish tapestries of the Unicorn Hunt which Collector Rockefeller bought in 1923 for a reported...
Meditated for six years by the directors of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition differs significantly from the great exhibition of British art now on view at the Louvre (TIME, March 14). It is neither blessed nor ornamented by any authority of the U. S. Government beyond the routine sponsorship of Ambassador William C. Bullitt. It is not confined to paintings. Besides 200 canvases, 40 sculptures and 80 prints, the exhibition includes probably the biggest historical show of native and derivative U. S. architecture ever displayed, an important collection of photographs, and an exhibition of stills...
...French followers of painting, the exhibition of U. S. oils and watercolors is designed to be an enlightenment. It may well prove to be one in several respects. From the body of U. S. folk art, which nobody even in the U. S. paid much attention to until a generation ago, there are 17 paintings. Also largely unfamiliar or forgotten in Europe are many of the choice 18th and 19th Century paintings. It is in the 20th Century section of the show, however, that Parisians will find an interest which the British Exhibition at the Louvre conspicuously lacks...
...Sealyham. Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition than the fact that of 46 paintings shown last autumn only five are among the 120 contemporary pictures now in Paris. And nothing shows better the character of the man chiefly responsible for the exhibition...