Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Hunger. Nordness announced plans to take over Madison Square Garden, show 4,000 works of art painted in 1957. None was to be larger than 48 in. by 48 in. When fellow Manhattan art dealers predicted this would bring a deluge of mediocrities, Nordness agreed to have a jury whittle the entries down to about 1,000 volunteered works which would go into the show along with offerings from a specially invited group of already recognized name artists...
With the whole spectrum of U.S. painting up on the walls and Madison Square Garden converted into a supermarket for art. Promoter Nordness hung on the turnstiles, at week's end seemed to have a fairchance of breaking even. Attendance (at 95?a head) for the first two days of the ten-day show: 6,942. Total picture sales: $15,175. At least the show had demonstrated the widespread, brush-in-hand U.S. interest in painting. With reasonable success in 1958, it might become a revealing annual event...
...undefeated indoor track team will run against the Boston Athletic Association Saturday night at the Boston Garden. The squad impressively demolished Boston University 76 to 33 during the exam period for its only...
...LaBine's goal-mouth rebound shot with one second to play pulled Boston into a 3-3 National League tie with Toronto yesterday at the Garden. It was the second dramatic finish for the Bruins in two days...
...Boston Celtics opened up a lead late in the first period and protected it all the way for a 118-95 National Basketball Assn. victory over the Syracuse Nationals yesterday before a Boston Garden crowd...