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...their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition...
Charging $1 to $4: France, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, Chile, Spain...
...theory behind the Luxembourg museum is typical of the logical French mind. Praises of living artists are forever reverberating in the cafes and studios of France. But these hallelujahs, often fanatical in intensity, are usually ignored by bland, potent French critics. These priests of the Louvre are too wise to ballyhoo any skyrocketing dauber who happens to be the vogue. But occasionally the critical pundits suspect a novice of immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands...
Last week a Ministerial decree announced the imminent transfer of the Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...