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Most of the money is needed to increase the number of I Tatti Fellowships. Center funds now support five or six of the 11 fellows. The others are sponsored by Guggenheim, Fulbright or other grants. New income would be used to increase the number of European scholars and to aid Americans whose fellowships are not renewed...
Once ignored, Tapies and fellow Prize winners Antonio Saura (Carnegie, Guggenheim) and Eduardo Chillida (Venice, Carnegie) are now treated as VIPs, as is Communist Pablo Picasso (although he has refused to set foot in Spain since the civil war). In 1960, an audience of high officials and intellectuals gave a standing ovation of 30 curtain calls to a play that bitterly attacked the regime...
...show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art drew 400,000 visitors in 20 weeks. Elsewhere last year, he had retrospectives in Paris, Copenhagen and London. He won first prizes at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition in 1961, the Venice Biennale in 1962, and was awarded the $10,000 Guggenheim International in 1964 and France's coveted Grand Prix National des Arts in 1965. But Giacometti cared more for life than honors. Said he, "I prefer the sight of a bird living in the sky to any masterpiece...
Harbage was asked to write his part of the Oxford history last spring and was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant to work on the project...
...Schapiro his work, the Columbia scholar sent him along for criticism to the lively circle of French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler to take refuge in the U.S. Motherwell's scholarship and knowledge of French poetry earned the surrealists' admiration; his work attracted Patroness Peggy Guggenheim, then married to Top Surrealist Max Ernst. She promptly proceeded to make him the youngest painter in her stable, which included Pollock, William Baziotes and Clyfford Still...