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...sculptor summer exhibit called "A Generation of Innovation." Curator A. James Speyer noted that "works of virtue by many noted sculptors are not included be cause of adherence to traditions earlier than our period." Still, Nakian's four-piece plaster Judgment of Paris (consisting of Paris, Minerva, Juno and Venus) is prominently displayed. To Speyer, the undercurrents of the exhibition are "the romantic trends that emerged in the '50s, both in abstract and figurative work." Nakian's work fits both categories...
Bartok & Hysteria. Simone de Beauvoir did not spring, like Minerva, full armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked...
...question remains: Will philosophy ever again address the heavens? Will it contribute anything to man's vision, rather than merely clarifying it? Caution and confusion are not necessarily signs of disaster, and even Hegel remarked that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." But the shadows are deep and the time for an awakening is at hand...
...first, Manzù contemplated such portentous subjects as Venus, Minerva and Apollo, even thought of doing the death of Caesar. But happily he closed his ears to classical echoes and eyed the recent past. Manzù replaced the center of three glass doors side by side in the portal ("It is not the entrance to the subway") with a 3-ft. by 6½-ft. panel depicting Italian emigrants to America. "Ours is a poor country," says he of Italy. "Our people went to America because they wanted to eat." With her worldly goods wrapped in a kerchief, a barefoot...
...London's Christie's, his son, Titus, brought the second-largest price of any painting ever auctioned (only $64,000 less than the Metropolitan's $2,300,000 Aristotle). Last week, at the rival auction house of Sotheby & Co., his plump wife, Saskia as Minerva, brought $350,000, followed by a stunning study of an old man from the collection of U.S. Tin Plate Magnate William B. Leeds, which was knocked down for $392,000. Titus had given Christie's an alltime auction record of $3,321,581; the two Rembrandts helped bring Sotheby...