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...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...
Hats in the Air. Manhattan critics divided sharply on the show. The Herald Tribune's Emily Genauer found it "all really very good-looking, but it's still so uninteresting." Art News's twinkly old Henry McBride, who has been reviewing for more than 40 years, flung his hat in the air. The show proves, said McBride, "that this country of ours does seem to be really going along at last on its own power, with so few and such slight references to European painting that they may be discounted at the start." Others were less quick...
Critic Emily Genauer thinks she knows why people accept abstract art so tranquilly, "[it is] a welcome avenue of escape...momentary refuge from the concrete image and specific facts of...chaos...
Admirers of Vincent Van Gogh got a tantalizing glimpse this week of an all-but-unknown painting by the great Dutchman. New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer, who lives in Croton, N.Y., had run across it one evening in the living room of a neighbor. The neighbor insisted on anonymity, but agreed to let Critic Genauer print a black & white reproduction in her Sunday column...
This week his winning way with paint and reporters was making news once again; a Dali Madonna appeared on the cover of This Week magazine, to illustrate an interview with the new Dali by news-wise Art Critic Emily Genauer. Dali had painted the picture last summer at Port Lligat in Spain, showed it to Pope Pius XII last fall. The Pope, Dali said afterwards, showed, "extraordinary comprehension" of his effort...