Word: canaday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before it opened, "Harlem On My Mind"* had drawn brickbats. John Canaday, the New York Times's senior art critic, declared that he would not review the show. "Apparently," he sniffed, it had "no art." Mayor John Lindsay charged that an essay by a 17-year-old Harlem schoolgirl, reprinted in the catalogue and containing a remarkably mature discussion of anti-Semitism among Negroes, was "racist." Apparently as a result of his charges, 60 guests invited to the opening canceled...
...critic who gave the Manet show highest marks was the New York Times's John Canaday, who then went on to blast New York as a "cultural backwater" because the show would not be seen at any of its museums...
...important art exhibitions are concerned," wrote Canaday, "New York is becoming a cultural backwater. Our smug conviction that we are the art center of the country has only the weakest justification: we are only the center where the most buying and selling of art goes on, and we are not really much interested in art except as a sales product, whether the sales pitch is in dollars and cents or in the race to" be first with esthetic novelties...
Concluded Canaday: "With four of our museums-the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney and the Jewish Museum-giving us shoddier and shoddier exhibitions as they compete with one another in the contemporary field, where there is not enough legitimate material to go around, and with the Metropolitan Museum half comatose in the field of temporary exhibitions, and with the excellent Morgan Library and Asia House too small (and too specialized) to accommodate most major exhibitions, New York is no longer in a position to pat itself on the back...
Pusey's report outlined developments at the University during the past year. He mentioned the Ford Foundation's $11.5 million grant for International Studies, the Canaday Fund for the Humanities, and the Charles Warren Center for American History...