Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion of "The Art of Judging Music" by Thomson, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, will highlight the second session, with talks by Edgar Wind, Smith College art historian, and Madame Olga Samaroff, of the Juilliard School of Music also scheduled...
...York Times music critic Downes will be chairman at the final meetings, at which Otto Kinkeldy, Horatio Appleton Lamb, Visiting Lecturer at the University, and Paul Lang, editor of "Musical Quarterly' and professor of Music at Columbia University, will speak...
...critic did finally manage to enter. What he found (and reported in last week's Parisian Arts magazine) was almost enough to ring the bells in art-conscious Paris. His discovery: the past-master of distortion and despair in oils had been painting like a happy man once more...
Infernal Cycle Closed. Picasso, said Art Critic Rene Rennes, is "working on some very large paintings . . . and it must be said that the spirit of these works constitutes a new phase in the history of Picasso. Ever since the disgust and indignation expressed in Guernica, his canvases have been more or less in the same idiom-the expression of murder and barbarism, [but] at Antibes Picasso has closed the infernal cycle of Guernica. Luminous Mediterranean skies replace the black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs play pipes and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Joy, dances...
Died. Ernest Boyd, 59, Dublin-born, copper-bearded essayist and critic, famed for his caustic comments on modern manners & morals during the Greenwich Village literary renaissance of the 19203, once known as the most striking-looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...