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Mondrian was one of the great lawgivers of modern art. He was born just short of 100 years ago, at Utrecht in 1872; he died in New York in 1944. To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective which later goes to Bern's Kunstmuseum in Switzerland. The show is a reminder of what "high seriousness"-a quality notably absent from most recent art-can mean in the hands of a master...
...survive that kind of diffusion. Mondrian survived triumphantly, though at some cost. The characteristics of industrial reproduction-flatness, harshness, gloss and repetition-became wrongly linked to his work. The idea that Mondrian was a kind of machine painter, all sensuousness barred, is one of the many illusions that the Guggenheim's exhibition will dispel...
...past. In 1959, Robert Frank published a book of photographs called The Americans, and Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction. Frank said he wanted to have Kerouac write the introduction because "he loved America very much and he was very desperate." Frank's photographs, taken 1955-57 on a Guggenheim fellowship, showed the American people at their most desperate...
...annual report to President Pusey, Sizer, who is working this term under a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Bristol in England, said that today's overriding mood is "cautious, contentious, and unsure...
Died. Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, philanthropist and industrialist, who with his wife founded Long Island's Newsday and turned it into the largest suburban daily (circ. 455,501) in the U.S.; in Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much...