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...Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually in a state of profound alcoholic intoxication." A lady critic from Philadelphia was told that she would never understand art until she had an affair with an iceman; and Critic Emily Genauer, now of the New York Herald Tribune, was greeted in an anteroom by a flunky with two nasty dogs and told to go home...
...three-column box, the New York Herald Tribune last week apologized for its able, veteran art critic. Emily Genauer. In reviewing an exhibition of 16 Americans at the Museum of Modern Art, she had labeled the work of Frank Stella "unspeakably boring." Stella, she wrote, "paints huge black canvases carefully lined with white pin stripes and calls the results very accurately 'stripe-painting...
Conceded the Trib: "Miss Genauer stands corrected." To make everything clear, the Trib printed a Stella...
...between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times; "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting...
Pleased: None. It was a selection that pleased none. As soon as the choices were announced (and before they were seen), critical guns took aim from the whole perimeter of opinion. Cried New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer: "Our exhibits will indeed be a scandal." Her objections centered on the absence of traditional painters, and the emphasis on abstraction. The New York Daily News predicted an "atrocity," called for reinforcements from Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell...