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Walter Gropius, designer of the Graduate Center, heard last week from Paris that the mural had been completed, but spokesmen for the Paris gallery in which the mural is to be exhibited, claim they don't know where the mural or its creator, Jean Miro, are at present...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...
Among the interior furnishings yet to be incorporated into the Center is a mural for the large dining room. Juan Miro, designer of the mural, is described by Gropins as "the world's greatest painter of modern murals." The mural, presently on exhibit in Paris, will be brought to America and probably installed in the Center before Christmas vacation...
Later this fall three modern murals by Miro, Bayer, and Arp will be pleased in various parts of the dormitories. The works are being completed by these artists especially for the graduate dormitories...
Pictures like White on White have more historic than intrinsic interest (painted 30 years ago, Malevich's solemn joke helped clear the way for later abstractionists). A few highbrow enthusiasts maintain that other paintings like the Miro and the Mondrian are really great art, and that the public will some day realize it. Be that as it may, the museum keeps buying whatever suits its own rarefied fancy, and exhibiting its finds with an air of "Close your mouth and open your eyes and I will give you a big surprise!" Last week it had on exhibition two recent...