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...prepared no special catalogue and skipped the usual expository wall-texts. Out from Museum vaults - which house twice as much again as the current show - came such familiar modern land marks as French Primitive Henri Rousseau's haunting, tactile Sleeping Gypsy, Pablo Picasso's monumental, screeching, early cubist Young Women of Avignon (painted in 1906-07 and considered the first cubist picture), Van Gogh's swirling Starry Night. Art lovers who looked for samples of what the Museum is buying today, or accepting as gifts, found...
...cubist still life was held at the border for special examination, on the chance that it might be a plan of the Panama Canal. Rumors flew that five other pictures had been lost. Opening dates were postponed, postponed again. Half of the gala invitations sent out never reached their addresses. But last week the curtain finally went up on Mexico City's No. i art event of the season: an 83-picture retrespective exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso, the melancholy, anarchic 62-year-old Spaniard whom many consider the greatest living artist...
...Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto exhorting Latin...
...center will comprise paintings of Cubist and Abstract artists as well as Surrealists. My interests are entirely neutral and my home is by no means the center of Surrealism but is open to all artists in whose work I believe...
Baffled little Jacques Lipchitz was famed in pre-war Paris as the world's greatest cubist sculptor. He fled to the U.S. from Unoccupied France last summer with four of his ponderous bronze statues, no money. This week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip...