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...Mexican painting from Aztec and Maya religious sculpture and the primitive religious paintings (retablos) that have hung for generations, as thick as shingles, in every mud-walled Mexican church. Like jazz, Mexican art is the product of exuberant talent rather than of training; like jazz, it has produced few first-rank geniuses, but the scintillating feats of line-&-color-crazed Mexicans often leave the learned doctors chapfallen and confounded...
Congratulations and felicitations on the publicity given Izler Solomon in the Music section of TIME, March 27. I've been wondering how long it would be before wide-awake TIME tumbled to the fact that a first-rank American conductor was maturing in Chicago...
...Franciscans crowed over most-and with good reason -was the Old Masters show. California is far from overstocked with masterpieces of the great artistic periods, and California artists are the first to admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from the Uffizi Gallery...
...economics, government, literature, and other phases of our national development. These lists of recommended books will be distributed to citizens throughout the country. Individual study will be supplemented next winter when a series of lectures on contemporary American problems and their relations to the past will be given by first-rank authorities from Harvard and other American universities. Both undergraduates and the public will be invited to attend these lectures, and later to measure their progress by taking examinations. Book prizes, the gifts of Mrs. Warren, will be awarded to the most successful...
...more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest Fenollosa, who gave the Museum of Fine Arts some of its earliest and best Japanese items, turned Buddhist, went to Japan...