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...work by most of the noted U.S. painters. But there was nothing surprising in the lot. The other 13 pictures in the show-culled from 2,000 entries in open competition-were no better and no worse than the invited ones. The New York World-Telegram's Emily Genauer, one of the few U.S. art critics with a nose for news, set out to discover how the jury had operated...
...three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
Leaving aside the critical fallacy involved in judging an artist's work by guessing at his "intentions," Miss Genauer came down with both high heels on Rattner's rationalization. "It is easy," she wrote, "to spot technical proficiency quickly, but to decide on the honesty of an artist's approach on the basis of only one of his works, and that examined at an average speed of two or three pictures a minute, takes considerable doing...
...second only to Cairo's), rearranged it in 15 galleries and a great hall to show, among other things, that the ancient Egyptians rolled their equivalent of dice, drank beer, plucked their eyebrows and went in for pedicures. The New York World-Telegram's Art Critic Emily Genauer tartly accused the Met of showing more interest in archaeology than...
...generally reserved for the National Academy of Design. Even the Virgin Islands and American Samoa were represented among some 526 pictures and statues. Most States held local exhibition and preliminary contests to choose the pictures to be sent. All critics were respectful, and the World-Telegram's Emil Genauer was able to write...