Word: mades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belied the soaring drama of its interior. "It's like the Vati can," exclaimed one painter, staring up at the great dome. "You would need a piece of sculpture the size of the old Athena in the Parthenon for this place," worried Sculptor William Zorach. "Even when he made a mistake, he made a big one," opined Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. But, looking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures selected from the 2,500-odd works in the Guggenheim collection, most were forced to concede that the great curved ramps provided the most dramatic...
...Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents on their own. Blythe, who was obviously no labor sympathizer, records one such drumhead trial. John O'Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition, his picture helps fill in the panoramic sweep of history with specific detail, showing just how things were in a time before the camera became ubiquitous...
...Only at night did Manabu Mabe indulge his private obsession, squandering his money on oil and canvases, sitting up, often until dawn, to paint large, calligraphic abstractions. Suddenly this year the whirlwind of artistic success sucked 35-year-old Manabu Mabe into its embrace, tossed him sky-high and made him not only the toast of Brazil but the season's brightest new art discovery...
...Manabu was seven, father fell on evil times. "A Japanese father never explains business affairs to the family," Mabe recalls, "but I knew something terrible had happened. My father was bankrupt and humiliated." His father tried first being a barber, then finally decided to move to Brazil. The family made the 50-day trip in steerage, and father became a contract laborer on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation...
...aside." Encountering a speed-limit sign along a highway in the free world, wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving out West Berlin. And second, "because I know that these ordinances are those of . . .a regime which I, in the name of God and Our Lord Jesus Christ, would like to see disappear...