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...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...
...reputation as a freedom fighter as well as a free thinker and writer (17 books, mostly on politics). He suffered imprisonment and exile, during part of which he studied in two Manhattan graduate schools (Columbia University, the New School for Social Research) and took a U.S. fellowship (a Guggenheim, to study the New Deal...
With financial help from the Guggenheim Foundation, Goddard continued his experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. In 1935 one of his rockets, affectionately dubbed Nell, climbed to 7,500 feet and flew faster than sound. In such experiments over the years, Goddard developed the basics of later rocket technology-gyroscopic stabilizers, fuel pumps, self-cooling motors, landing devices. When diagrams of the Germans' V-2 reached the U.S. in 1944, some scientists observed that the internal structure strikingly paralleled Goddard's old Nell...
Goddard died in 1945 on the eve of the first U.S. test firings of captured V-28, leaving behind 22 volumes of meticulous records that proved to be of immense value to U.S. rocketmen. Six years later, as equal beneficiaries of his estate, Goddard's widow and the Guggenheim Foundation sued the U.S. Government for patent infringements. Last week, in belated recognition of Goddard's genius, the U.S. agreed to a settlement of $1,000,000. It was the largest patent-infringement award ever made by the U.S. Government...
...other modern dictators have written, he would have declared almost every living Spanish artist a degenerate and banned his works. But Spain's artistic roots go deep. Last week in two major exhibits in Manhattan-one at the Museum of Modern Art, the other at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-U.S. gallerygoers could see that the heirs of Goya and El Greco had plunged headlong into their own brand of abstract expressionism...