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...York City's most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...
When he came back, the depression was "going full blast." Edel wrote for Canadian newspapers, did broadcasting work, tutoring, and received a Guggenheim fellowship to edit James' plays. "The army used my talents well in World War II," he added, "Others in my position were sent to Tokyo, but they sent me to France, where I was on the military end of psychological warfare. The Germans would be in pockets, you see, and we would get them to surrender, using loudspeakers and leaflets. It saved a lot of lives...
...other places. The last town may surprise you (it certainly did this interviewer), but not so once Dr. Prakash has explained the rather unique aspect of Indian museums. India's museums are generally of the multi-purpose type: mixtures of, say, The Gilbert Hall of Science, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Representational Art, and the Museum of Natural History--to name a few of the typically specialized museums particular to America. To support these institutions, the Indian government settles $30,000,000 of its rather shaky budget upon them. The museums are also supported by whichever...
...Papa of Dada. Harold Loeb changed more patterns than most. His father was a Wall Street broker, his mother a Guggenheim. Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour...
...worked part time as a construction worker, while his artist wife, Irma Cavat, padded out the budget as a waitress. Now, with a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright between them, they are both fulltime painters. San Francisco-born James Leong, who supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns out paintings of figures that one critic noted "look as though they are wrapped in dry leaves. If they moved, you could hear them crackle." In contrast with the age-old tradition of hiring a model and making...