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Ars Gratia Artis. In Louth. England, Office Worker Gordon Goddard was fined $14 and costs for counterfeiting, in spite of his barrister's explanation that he forged ?5 notes because they "presented a challenge to him as an artist."
Gratia Artis. In Vienna, Friedrich Karasek was given six years for forgery despite his plea that he regarded painting banknotes as "a new form of art."
The Quiet One, by 32-year-old William Artis, dominated the sculpture section. A technical sergeant in the Mediterranean theater during the war, Artis came home to study with Ivan Mestrovic, the expatriate Yugoslav sculptor (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948) at Syracuse University. Mestrovic,' who knows as well as any...
In downtown Seattle, tickets for the big game were selling for $40 on the black market. When 12,000 people jammed into the University of Washington's Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament...
... Gratia Artis? In Wuppertal, Germany, after critics praised his exhibition of abstract paintings, Paul Fontaine found six of them hung upside down.