Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shahn's integration of form and content is an example to contemporary artists. This exhibit proves how "aesthetic" and formally complex it is possible to be and yet still able to communicate with, and relate to, society...
There is to be learned in this exhibit not only much about art but also much about life. It is well worth a number of visits...
...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari describes a mountebank monk's visit to a small German town. Apparently Dr. Caligari wishes to exhibit his somnambulist at the town's fair. But a series of unexplained murders follows their arrival. At last Dr. Caligari is caught and led off in a strait-jacket. This story, however, is told by a young man in an institution. When the director of the institution walks among his patients after the story, he himself appears to be Dr. Caligari. Recognizing him, the patient screams, "You are Dr. Caligari!" and he too is led off in a strait...
...critics asked, is a museum the proper place for such a show? The New York Herald Tribune's Emily Genauer said the exhibit made her feel she had attended a dinner party with guests from Mme. Tussaud's waxworks. Said she: "Museums ought to stick to their originals. There is no shortage of them, old and new, in America." The New York Times's Howard Devree called it a "neon age substitute" and objected to the "inescapable tang of reproduction...
Last week U.S. gallerygoers had their first chance in a decade to review Corot's prodigious output, in an exhibit of 32 paintings at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co. Their fresh verdict: Corot painted far better than even his contemporaries and immediate successors suspected. He had almost totally suppressed his best work, including early, architecturally conceived landscapes as well as later figure painting, while showing only the vaporous landscapes that the 19th century public crowded...