Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mere Mockery. Under arrest was Andrei D. Sinyavsky, 40, a ranking literary critic for the "liberal" magazine Novy Mir. Though Sinyavsky is known in the West as a supporter of the late Boris Pasternak and has penned essays on Picasso and Robert Frost, his delicate style just did not seem to fit. Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background...
...building is the penthouse where the bachelor baron, as head of the house of Lambert, lives alone. Broad reception halls and dining rooms convert from business luncheons at noon to formal dinners at night. Strolling through suites studded with Giacometti's lean bronzes, through rooms where Picassos and Mirós alter nate with Bonnards and Rouaults into his big library, the baron likes to wink roguishly as he touches a hidden button that causes the book-lined wall to swing back, revealing a glass-sheathed bedroom with a sweeping view of Brussels. "It even has a James Bond...
...Mediterranean at Saint-Paul-de-Vence and commanding one of the most breathtaking views on the entire coast, the new museum is a gift to France from Paris Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (rhymes with jog). Having made a fortune in the postwar boom selling the works of Chagall, Miró, Kandinsky, Braque and Giacometti, Maeght decided to enlist his artists' aid in building a showcase for their paintings and sculptures. Thus Giacometti was able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today are in the open air looking like ghosts...
...windows; the brilliant light of Provence streams through filters in the ceiling. "I had a holy horror," says Maeght, "of trying to look at a painting streaked by rays of the sun." So that visitors may "wash their eyes" between, say, a room of Braques and a room of Mirós, spacious views open out onto a grassy patio or a lily-padded pool. Blending all these delightful and special touches into a bold structure that wholly integrates architecture with painting and sculpture was Catalonian Architect José Luis Sert, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
...priced from $17.50 to $2,000, Woolworth will open a permanent art gallery on the second floor of its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. The gallery will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search through Europe and the U.S. to assemble the collection, Woolworth's buyers also picked up Salvador Dali's $30,000 Triumph of the Sea, and a $24,000 Gainsborough called Dr. Pulteney. Anyone who does not have that kind...