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...proved himself a brilliant art student in Chicago. Like other black artists and writers, he found refuge from America in Europe: first in Paris (on a scholarship in the 1920s), then in the south of France and finally -- having met and fallen in love with Holcha Krake, a Danish artist 16 years older than he was -- in Denmark, where he painted and exhibited with some success through the 1930s...
European modernism "primitivized" Johnson, as though a feedback loop were running from the Cubists' and Expressionists' use of tribal African art to a black artist in a Danish fishing village. "I myself feel like a primitive man," he told an interviewer in 1935, echoing the modernist founding fathers (Gauguin, Van Gogh), "like one who is at the same time both a primitive and a cultured painter." In essence, as the sculptor Martin Puryear points out in the catalog, European modernism let Johnson see himself anew; it provoked him into negotiating "his racial dilemma as a black artist moving between several...
Bowing to Cambridge's diplomatic pressure, the Crown Prince of Denmark has agreed to pass on the rent-controlled house Harvard had assigned him, according to Cambridge City Councillors and officials at the Danish Embassy in New York...
...residence for the Price has been found, so it has been solved. There's no problem anymore," said Danish Vice-Consul Birgitte Haederseal. "We certainly didn't want any problem with [the rent-control controversy], she said. Haederseal said she did not know where the Prince would be living next fall...
...spite of the conflict, Cambridge will offer a warm welcome to the Danish visiting undergraduate when he arrives next fall, said Walsh. He said that he assured a Danish TV reporter that "we're not hostile to the Prince...