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Manhattan's new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and modified by Director James Johnson Sweeney (TIME, Nov. 2), raised a storm of controversy-and a host of sightseers. In the ten weeks since it opened, Sweeney reported last week, almost 250,000 people-an average of nine a minute-have queued up and paid up (admission: 50^) to see what is inside...
...authority on the philosophy of education, Sheffler will publish next year a study of "The Language of Education." Author of "Philosophy and Education," he has been a member of the Faculty since 1952. During 1958-59, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship...
This showing of sixty-five works from the Guggenheim Museum in New York has been presented to Bostonians not only to honor the Guggenheim on the opening of its new, Frank Lloyd Wright building, but also to remind local art-goers of the serious deficiency to modern art in Boston public collections. Perry T. Rathbone, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, hopes that this exhibit will stimulate the formation of a permanent collection of modern art in his museum so that such loan exhibitions will no longer be needed to display representative works of the twentieth country...
...does well to honor the recent Wright creation. It deserves such recognition. But to do so by borrowing from the Guggenheim when its best acquisitions have naturally been used for its grand opening was ill-advised. This show is for the most part composed, unfortunately, of minor works and it is hard to see how such a big, but unsatisfying display will convince Boston's millionaires that modern art is worth purchasing for local museums...
Three-Level Chess. Credit for the installation goes to Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney, who discovered that laying out pictures in a spiral museum is like playing three-dimensional chess at a distance of 80 ft. (the inner diameter of the core). Pointing and counterpointing pictures on three different levels at once, Sweeney was able to orchestrate modern art in a way that no horizontal museum can hope...