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That moment in 1910 when Vasily Kandinsky laid down his brush upon finishing a certain watercolor represents what is often regarded as the birth of abstract painting. Last week Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum put the pioneer abstractionist's modern-day reputation to a bold test: at the London art auction house of Sotheby & Co., the museum offered for sale no less than 50 of its 170 Kandinskys. Fears that such a mass sale might depress the market proved unwarranted. For it was painting from Kandinsky's early abstractionist period that brought the top money...
What ever could bring Parrish back? None other than the pop promoter of this era: Lawrence Alloway, nimble curator of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Alloway has escorted a show of Parrish's work from far-out Bennington College to Manhattan's conservative Gallery of Modern Art, where last week 52 Parrish.es went on view...
...about town, or new to it, know the Empire State Building is only a second feature. So are Shea Stadium, Madison Square Garden, the Statue of Liberty, the Guggenheim Museum, Radio City Music Hall and Central Park. For in New York City these days, the fastest, flashiest show around is at the corner of Broadway and 46th Street...
...GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. Frank Lloyd Wright's curvilinear museum makes a fitting setting for the "endlessness" of Architect-Sculptor Frederick Kiesler, who turns a room into a work of art, links painted and sculpted units to form a labyrinth of surprises. In the main gallery is the 120-work Van Gogh collection lent by the painter's nephew. Both exhibitions through June...
...when Kiesler made a show of "Environmental Sculpture" that opened last week in the Guggenheim Museum, he proposed to do over an entire gallery. "You can't absorb the room in one glance," explains Kiesler. "You must know what's above, below-again the totality." Part of the whole, called The Last Judgment, consists of a huge bonelike shaft of fire-gilt bronze that thrusts through a Plexiglas slab at counterimages of heaven and earth. It leaps up at an aluminum table whose bronze legs look like lightning bolts and jabs down at a white bronze floor plate...