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Wesley was a Guggenheim Fellow, served as president of Wilberforce College, chairman of the History Department of Howard University, dean of the Graduate School of Howard University and president and executive director of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History...
...took refuge in New York, and married the heiress and art patron Peggy Guggenheim a year later. After the war ended, he divorced Peggy, married Artist Dorothea Tanning and built a house in Arizona. Life there resulted in a magnificent series of Arizona mountains, bleak and burning under their immobile suns...
...tough-mindedness of her sculpture. Eva Hesse's work exerted a steady, underground pressure on the look of New York art. The galleries are stuffed with artists whose products are unacknowledged variants on hers. Last week, a posthumous retrospective of her work opened at Manhattan's Guggenheim-if "retrospective" is not a pompous term for a view of five years' work. We will never know what Hesse might have done if the tumor had not rioted in her brain, killing...
Arrow, 51, is presently on leave with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He said last week after receiving the award he was "honored by the feeling that my work has been of some use to the economics profession and to the world...
Thanks to the Guggenheim Museum, whose founder bought more than 100 Kandinskys during the 1930s, there has always been a special relationship between the artist and a city he never visited, New York. Next week a major Kandinsky retrospective opens at the Guggenheim, giving New Yorkers and others a further chance to assess this curious, prophetic and rather aloof figure and to see how close to the core of modernism his visions...