Word: guggenheims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news that the Guggenheim Museum planned a Braque retrospective for its main summer show in 1988. The bad news, however, is that it is a casualty of museum gridlock. The Guggenheim has neatly timed it to clash with not one but two other Braque exhibitions, in Japan and Norway, so that half the paintings one would most want to see were unobtainable. The New York show samples all the stages of a long career, but it is complete only in a chronological sense. It does contain some of Braque's masterpieces, but it gives you just the scaffolding...
...winner of the Prix de Rome, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and six honorary doctorate degrees...
...recipient of two Guggenheim, two Fulbright, a MacArthur, a Pulitzer, and a National Book Award prizes, Ashbery reached an agreement last December with the Houghton Library to deposit his papers there for an unannounced sum of money...
...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
Sternfeld takes most of his pictures during the time he can get off from teaching photography, which he does these days at Sarah Lawrence College. Earlier in his career he was known for his 35-mm urban street scenes. In 1978 he received the first of two Guggenheim grants for a series of cross-country travels. He used part of the money to buy a tripod-mounted 8-by-10 view camera that produces the fine detail essential to the new images he was after. When his pictures from those trips began appearing in photography magazines and exhibits, the most...