Word: barre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious from the start that the bank would need large paintings for its wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; Robert Hale, curator of American painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...masterpiece," says Art Critic Alfred Frankfurter, "is-like the President of the United States-what is elected as one. Confidently voting their judgment, Frankfurter, the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., and a committee of other top-rank critics and collectors last week put on display at Manhattan sWildenstein Gallery 69 paintings and drawings, in a benefit show simply and coolly labeled "Masterpieces...
Pink & Sapphire. As critic, Soby wrote the first U.S. book on surrealism and neoromanticism, then turned out a study of Italian Painter Giorgio de Chirico that Alfred Barr calls "the best monograph on a living artist." His own nine De Chiricos are probably as good as anything the artist ever turned out. Yet it is hard to say they are the best of the collection...
...Salk shots. When Dr. John B. Johnson of the National (Negro) Medical Association contrasted the slow U.S. pace of oral vaccine development with Russia's high-speed drive,* Dr. Sabin snapped: "It requires leadership to get these things done. We simply need leadership." Dr. Robert N. Barr, representing state health officers, blew up: "That's a damned insult, Mr. Chairman! I object to that statement." But Sabin would not withdraw it. "The National Foundation has supported [with $1,200,000] all the research work I've ever done on the oral vaccine," said Sabin, "but the foundation...
...able to smell a bargain-and a masterpiece-a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: "I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about." He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees...