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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (TIME, Aug. 10). Sitting in his favorite suite in his favorite hotel, where he has been coming for 35 years, Wright busily dispatched lieutenants to make arrangements for a new Manhattan office he is setting up, admired an Oriental painting of marmosets he had just bought, talked to contractors about bids on the museum, and kept up a steady, easy flow of talk...
...wrote his symphony 14 years ago. A top-speed composer, he has written concertos for violin, viola, harpsichord and four for piano, seven ballets, two quartets and lots of other chamber music. A student of Vaughan Williams, he has studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think I'll write another symphony...
...circle of highbrow musicians, but he is one of the most promising U.S. composers. At 35 he has won his share of prizes, among them a $5,000 award from the University of California, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award, two Guggenheim fellowships, the imposing New York Music Critics Circle award...
...realism: 1) making paint look as much as possible like something else, and 2) letting it look like just paint. It makes some people mad and others glad, on alternate days. A good example of what the shouting is about can be seen this week at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled an exhibition of 54 paintings entitled "Younger American Painters...
...exhibition of a crowd of contemporary artists is bound to include some lemons, and a few canvases at the Guggenheim look not so much painted as beaten with muddy sticks. A contrastingly pristine nothing is Two Circles, by the art director for Conde Nast magazines, Alexander Liberman. Consisting simply of two shiny black disks on a white panel, it is as chic as two black eyes have become in cafe society...