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...political commentary of George Grosz's "End of the Day" (a sketch of factory workers making the dismal trek home) and satiric "Bourgeois Society" resurfaced in the Social Realism of Ben Shahn and other American artists working in the 1930s. Several years ago a scandal ensued when the Guggenheim Museum cancelled a show of photographs of tenement housing on the grounds that the art was too "political...
Other ads will unveil the reborn campaigner. Explains Film Maker Charles Guggenheim, who is supervising the ads: "It is no secret that Senator Kennedy is taking his gloves off. Our ads will reflect that." Whether the barefisted style will keep him in the presidential ring remains to be tested, but it is now at least clear how he intends to fight...
...York's Guggenheim Museum, a view of new British...
...foundations and dealers have flooded Europe with every kind of U.S. "product" from abstract expressionism to photorealism. No market, no museum shows: few American museums in recent years have given any hint that England has sculptors younger than Anthony Caro, or painters less celebrated than David Hockney. Thus the Guggenheim Museum's current show, "British Art Now," is doubly interesting. Chosen by the museum's curator of exhibitions, Diane Waldman, it consists of work by eight artists, a sample with no pretensions to being a definitive list but the first good one to be seen...
DIED. Peggy Guggenheim, 81, American-born patroness of 20th century art; following a stroke; in Camposampiero, Italy. Seven years after losing her father on the Titanic in 1912, Peggy came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared...