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...Rome last week a taut, red-faced man with an angry glint in his eye called in New York Times Correspondent Paul Hofmann and unburdened himself of a bitter complaint. "The Americans," said he, "have done a nasty thing to Italy in Libya...
...visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the family had settled, the late great Pianist Josef Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most of them clustered around Manhattan Mentor Hans Hofmann, 75, whose summer class this year numbers loo-odd. Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island's hard-driving avant-garde rival...
...prospecting without success for buyers, the foundation announced that Etude would fold with its May-June issue. Highlights of Etude's coda: a cover portrait of Beethoven, an interview with Soprano Renata Tebaldi, a biographical sketch of Composer Igor Stravinsky, and a lengthy obituary on Master Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...Muller, 34, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, is another Hans Hofmann pupil who still sticks by his abstract teacher's general principles but feels, "Abstract art is too esoteric. The image gives one a wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...