Word: bezalel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Showman Billy Rose offered $1,000,000 worth of his private sculpture collection to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel (TIME, Feb. 8), the offer was quickly accepted, and plans were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city...
SHOWMAN Billy Rose likes to describe himself as the "Sixth Avenue Medici." Last week he could prove that the statement was no idle boast. In one magnificent gesture, he had given $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel...
Last fall the America-Israel Cultural Foundation helped arrange a meeting between Rose and Bezalel's boyish, brilliant director, Karl Katz. Katz agreed that the hunger was there, and gave one cogent reason: there is hardly any modern art displayed in the Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When...