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...Home-Grown Art. The Met aims to be both a place of contemplation and study; and Rorimer's proudest statistic is that 32% of the museum visitors return as often as two to three times a month. Artists come in droves, as students to sketch everything from Renaissance Madonnas to abstract collages, as established painters to perfect. Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who haunted the Met as a young man, says: "The greatest thrill of my life is to walk from the Rembrandt rooms and find my Easter Monday hanging on the wall...
...that American art has risen to lead the contemporary world market, the Met is challenged to make room for home-grown work. Significantly, this occurs at a time when a major re-evaluation of earlier periods of U.S. art is in full swing. In response, the museum will put on view next month some 450 works of U.S. painting and sculpture, spanning three centuries in a previously impermanent panoply drawn from its own collection. Rorimer has also just announced plans for a new $4,000,000 American wing. The Met being the Met, no sooner said than half the funds...
...with the countryside around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine, Hurd loves the desert. He lives without television, owns only riding boots, and eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
Died. Thor Thors, 61, Iceland's ruddy, affable diplomat of all work, delegate to the U.N., Ambassador to the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington...
...launched yet another career as a renowned, and certainly magnanimous, portrait photographer (he gave his work to his subjects free of charge), all the while amassing enough Negro manuscripts and phonograph records from his old uptown haunts to establish the U.S.'s largest collection of Harlem's home-grown art at Yale University; in Manhattan...