Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
Texas had never seen anything like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite...
...terrific fight fan," the Metropolitan Opera's 22-year-old Soprano Patrice Munsel told an interviewer. "I love it. I go practically every Friday night. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's so basic...
...there is a liberal sprinkling of headline stories of the period, and a deal of color which will call up a pleasant nostalgia in those who like to look back, this is by no means a historical novel of the Roosevelt years. Nor is it a typical story of "Metropolitan Americanus, Middle Class, White Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude), son of a millionaire father who committed suicide in the '29 crash, and of a dipsomaniac mother with blue-dyed hair. By leaning heavily on these and other...
...other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...