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Like many patriarchs, Meyer Guggenheim loved to speak to his family in maxims. One was: "Roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth." Another required a little elaboration. Pulling out a bundle of seven sticks, one representing each son, he asked each to break it. When none could, Meyer pressed his point: "Together you are invincible. Singly, each of you may be easily broken. Stay together, my sons, and the world will be yours...
...lessons were not lost. Together, the Guggenheim sons-Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Benjamin, Simon and William-made much of the world theirs. Building on the medium-size fortune left them by Meyer, a Swiss Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised...
Seven Harvard professors were among the recipients of fellowships from the' John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the foundation announced Saturday...
...drawing loosened too, and the place supplied him with a different subject matter-a landscape of dunes and water reflections, green groves and pink bodies half eroded by light, full of softness and coarse sexual ebullience. The aim of the new show at New York City's Guggenheim Museum, "Willem de Kooning in East Hampton," is to sum up this work. It does, with nearly 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures, ranging from 1962 to 1977, and an excellent catalogue by Curator of Exhibitions Diane Waldman...
...difficulty is to reconcile what one sees at the Guggenheim with the thunderous claims made for de Kooning's late work. A good example of the critical genre appeared in New York, by de Kooning's longstanding friend, exegete and collector, Thomas Hess. "It was in such storms," writes Hess, presumably referring to the squidgy, roiled surface of the paintings, "that life first was created, and creativity -the miracle of genesis-is the ultimate concern in de Kooning's difficult, elusive, spontaneous art." The drift of Hess's passage seems to be that de Kooning...