Word: michelangelo
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Billy Graham has a handsome tabernacle, in which a filmed version of his appeal has already made more than 50 "decisions for Christ." And the $3,500,000 Vatican Pavilion houses, among other treasures, the fair's most honored guest-Michelangelo's famed Pietà, his white marble statue of the dead Christ in the lap of his mother...
...East 55th. Paris' Pop prodigy had a painting, done when he was 22, in the Guggenheim's recent worldwide survey, and thus was its youngest artist. Here he spans centuries and continents, melding old and new with art about art: he copies the classics (Praxiteles, Botticelli, Michelangelo), jazzes them up in modern trappings, calls them camouflages. Through April...
...move. The Louvre's Venus de Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny...
...burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...