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...Unequaled among the great gifts received by the Museum of Modern Art," exulted Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. After months of negotiations, the museum landed 100 works by 54 20th century painters and sculptors from the private collection of New York Dealer Sidney Janis, 70, a Buffalo-born former shirt manufacturer who began collecting contemporary art in the late '20s, opened his quick-stepping, publicity-prone Manhattan gallery in 1948. The collection, valued at upwards of $2,000,000, has everything from Picasso and a $50,000 Mondrian, which Janis bought from the artist...
When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was founded 38 years ago, it stood almost alone in the museum field as an institution dedicated wholly to making people see, understand and enjoy strictly modern art. On July 1, MOMA's first director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., 65, who has been its director of collections since 1947, will retire. A year later the current director, Rene d'Harnoncourt, 66, will step down. To replace them, the museum last week announced it had picked Cincinnati-born, Chicago-educated Bates Lowry...
...sensibilities. A neon Coca-Cola sign is in a very real sense a piece of art. The fact that anyone could make it is more or less beside the point. The fact is that no one else did make it." Says the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr, who is viewed by many as the untiaraed pope of the modern art world: "It is folly to say what is art. Works can become art by fiat -sometimes the fiat of one man. And it can be art for a while and then not art. It's obvious...
...memorial exhibit from his collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The memorial could not be better hung nor more appropriately placed: not only was he one of the Modern's seven founders; he also hand-picked as its first director his pupil, Alfred H. Barr...
...toeless, sexless and potbellied, the figures could be store dummies, moon men, dolls, Oscars, or medical textbook diagrams. Ever since their creator, Sculptor Ernest Trova, 39, presented them as "falling men" on rotating wheels and bolted six together into a giant humanoid child's jack for a Famous-Barr department-store exhibition in St. Louis in 1964, the debate has raged over what the little men mean...