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...considerably disturbed by the suggestion in Tuesday's CRIMSON, that the mural by Joan Miro now in the Graduate Centre, represents phallicism and obscenity alone. The dispute strikes very close to home, in fact, since a reproduction of the mural is now hanging above my desk, and may, without my knowledge, have been giving intolerable offense to the ladies who come to empty my ashtrays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Bull This | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

After seven months of wandering over Europe, half unfinished, the new Juan Miro mural arrived at the Grad Center dining halls last month. Afficionados, as the gentleman above, were delighted; others, dismayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miro Mural Arrives at Grad Center | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

...Miro mural was scheduled to appear last January, but did not. Officials wired Paris to ask the painter what had happened. They received no reply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miro Mural Arrives at Grad Center | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

Other attempts to find Miro and his mural also failed. It appeared on exhibit in Paris for a short time last spring, then disappeared again. During the summer, Miro wired shortly that it was on its way, and the gigantic work finally showed up in time to greet this year's graduate diners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miro Mural Arrives at Grad Center | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

...because they "wanted something to hang on the wall." Corporation Lawyer* Colin and his wife decided on modern paintings as "more appropriate in a modern apartment-old masters in the same surroundings would be chichi." Though they specialize in such safe school-of-Paris bets as Rouault, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Soutine and Modigliani, the Colins admit to having made some poor purchases: "But we love our mistakes-we never sell or exchange them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rich Tastes | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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