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...stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...proof of this could be seen last week at a tastefully selected Derain show in the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. The show was the first big thing for James Johnson Sweeney since he was appointed director last January after angrily resigning from Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Sweeney stuck to Derain's pre-World War I output, but even with the span thus limited, one fact about Derain comes through. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. In the words of Jean Cassou. curator of the Museum of Modern...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, came upon Lasansky in Argentina, where the artist was born 47 years ago. Lasansky was then in charge of two provincial art schools; Taylor was so impressed with his work that he arranged to have him come to the U.S. on a Guggenheim fellowship. Once in New York, Lasansky decided that he "didn't want to go back to Perón," so he sent for his wife and children. For a few months he spent his time looking at every one of the 150,000 old-master prints...
...project stated that the drive has not yet reached its $2 million goal. the immediate effect of insufficient funds is that only one of the six "I Tatti Fellows" currently working in Italy is being financed by Harvard University. The five others have received grants from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and other foundations...
Given the chance, she said, women make just as good executives as men. Noting that "a woman in Russia leads a more constructive life than a woman in America" because she has greater professional opportunities, Mrs. Guggenheim deplored "the mommie fetish so deeply branded into the American psyche...