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BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. Watercolor was the first medium that Joseph Mal-lord William Turner attempted and he continued in it long after he became England's great romantic painter. This major exhibition of his watercolors, lent by the British Museum, embraces his genius from the disciplined draftsmanship of his student days (the earliest was drawn at 14) to later seascapes so impressionistic in color and spare of design as to border on the abstract. Through...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The museum supplements its large collection of Rembrandt paintings with a selection of his prints, and puts on view a painting by Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy lent to New Amsterdam by old Amsterdam...
...occur to me" in the midst of a concert. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." Yet his playing is still notable for its certainty, its easy muscularity and sense of inevitability. In last week's tour d'art, Rubinstein lent exhilaration and romance to the weighty grandeur of Brahms' concertos, playing with the noble touch that has made him the most satisfying pianist alive...
...triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist who by the strength of his personality succeeded in making himself larger than life. He was a master of the imperial gesture, the meaningful touch that lent grandeur and drama to his image. His nation bestowed on him the Medal of Honor and 20 other decorations for gallantry and extraordinary valor, and he received similar decorations from many other countries. Yet he seldom wore a medal, and he could stand midst a troop of ribbon-festooned heroes...
Flown into New York City, to go on display at once at the Guggenheim Museum, were 120 Van Goghs (60 paintings and 60 drawings) strapped to seats in a jet. And Whistler's 92-year-old mobile Mother, lent by the Louvre, went on view in St. Louis...