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Unseen Goddesses. In listing the lenders to the show, Director Rene d'Harnoncourt wound up "thanking most of all an old friend, Pablo Picasso himself." And well he might, for 90% of the sculptures, from massive bronzes to toy stick figures carved to amuse children, comes from Picasso's own collection. As the throngs who jammed the show's opening days agreed, they indeed make a diverting display. Though Picasso may consider them doodles, they are clearly the doodles of genius. They reflect a fantastic fertility of invention, a sculptural technique to match every...
...field as an institution dedicated wholly to making people see, understand and enjoy strictly modern art. On July 1, MOMA's first director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., 65, who has been its director of collections since 1947, will retire. A year later the current director, Rene d'Harnoncourt, 66, will step down. To replace them, the museum last week announced it had picked Cincinnati-born, Chicago-educated Bates Lowry...
Under the pensive gaze of Rodin's Thinker, mounting the show took the Modern's Director René d'Harnoncourt a full month. "For example," he said, "there was the problem of installing a 73-ft. chain to support Frederick Kiesler's Last Judgment. The museum was most helpful, but Rodin faces keep popping out in the strangest places...
...marshals are: Emily L. Deiman, of Warner House and New York City; Anne J. d'Harnoncourt, of Warner House and New York City; Catherine B. Fitch, of Jordan J and Nahant; Sarah Jackson, of Cabot Hall and Dover; and Miranda C. Sampsell, of Moors Hall and Chicago...
...choruses throughout are well directed, well spoken and graceful. Care has been taken with details in the casting. Appollo and Athena (Joel Martin and Anne D'Harnoncourt) look like gods, towering over the mortals on the stage...