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...final tableau in praise of folly, the operatic version of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor was precisely what the Met needed to dignify an otherwise dolorous season. Zeffirelli's sets were like Dutch paintings come to life: an ancient inn cured in ale and laughter, a courtyard full of gossip and sunshine, a forest too deep for the eye to penetrate. His cast moved briskly and well, as if every gesture had been choreographed, and his stage direction was so good that the singers (Gabriella Tucci, Judith Raskin, Regina Resnik, Anselmo Colzani) all seemed to be excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Crusade Against Boredom | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...Center, 1193 Lexington Ave. at 81st. His huge mural left unfinished in Chapultepec Castle, Mexican Communist Siqueiros, 67, has for 31 years sat in prison serving time for "social dissolution." But the warden lets him paint, and his dancing brush creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Though he says that his eyesight is growing weaker in his dim cell, Siqueiros still wields a dancing brush that creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. His jail-made Dancer wishfully wraps a cape of anatomy around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings from Prison | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Students in Fine Arts 13 yesterday filed out of the Fogg by way of the courtyard--slightly out of their way--smiling nervously at the television camera stationed on the second floor balcony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts 13 Students Will Star on Channel 15 | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Off to Court | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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