Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strollers along Manhattan's Madison Avenue last week did a double take at the Contemporaries Gallery windows. There seemed to be blank papers, framed and on show. A closer look from a sharp angle revealed that the papers were actually prints, but made without ink. They were geometrical constellations of straight, raised and interlocking lines, embossed on the paper. On close inspection the lines proved to border geometrical shapes in space, which seemed to keep shifting. These were puzzle pictures by Abstractionist Josef Albers...
Ceramics, one of mankind's first arts, is having a renaissance after a century-long decline. Begun when a handful of ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows...
...MANHATTAN SKYSCRAPER hotel, 48 stories tall with six stories of offices and 2,000 rooms, is planned by Builder William Zeckendorf for site across from Radio City on Avenue of the Americas at 51st St. The $66 million building is slated to start in fall, finish in 1961. Name: the Zeckendorf...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...
Died. Una O'Connor, 78, Abbey-trained Irish actress who became one of the most familiar slaveys of stage and screen (Cavalcade, Witness for the Prosecution); in Manhattan...