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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern classics of prose and poetry inscribed by their authors to the late Amy Lowell, were placed on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library yesterday in honor of the poetess' birthday today. Nearly all the volumes contain tributes, in the handwriting of the authors, to Miss Lowell as a poet or as a friend...
Last week a letter appeared in the New York Post from Paul Manship, who is designing the most prominent sculpture at the Fair, recalling that "even Chicago counterbalanced its fan dancer with a world-famous art exhibit" (at the Art Institute, a mile away from the fair grounds), and boldly asking his clients: "Are exhibitions at the Fair to be limited to products that carry a price tag? ... Is this to be a World's Fair worthy of New York, or another glorified Coney Island...
...different nations, many of them expressive of war and spiritual suffering, many more bearing out the abstruse eroticism of the entrance hall. To Surrealists sex and horror are indescribable and somewhat confused; therefore they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded...
...this country the Fogg Museum is generally considered pre eminent. From an abundance which includes not only the Fogg's own holdings, the Sachs and the Locser Collections and precious examples bought from the great Oppenheimer Collection in London, some fifty-five drawings have been selected for this exhibit. "Old Master Drawings" is the title but the footnote may be added that this has been interpreted broadly to include about twenty from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
...process of crystallization since 1933, the MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion...