Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fitzgerald's leg condition had made it seem unlikely that he would do well today; a second place under these condition gives promise of a tough Crimson team later in the season. The unexpectedly poor eleventh showing of Jack Benjamin may have been due to the same cold that bothered...
The joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused...
The walls, indeed, arrest the eye, encircling an irregularly shaped shaft of space and supporting an inclined plane whose waist high, fragile balcony has been said to invite suicides. Annexed to the dome which houses the art is a small auditorium, whose peaceful proportions contrast dramatically with those turbulent ones...
It has been said that Wright deliberately made Sweeney's awesome job more difficult. Wright might not deny the charge. He never pretended painting or sculpture were in the same class with his buildings.
But he does succeed in showing pictures in a more dynamic way than they have been previously exhibited: colors explode from the several tiers, shapes and patterns echo to a frightening crescendo, and above it all hammers the spiral and the circular dome.