Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arts, mobilizes painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Its first show, "Resurgiemento," included Artist Domingo Garcia, whose work is in the city's Museum of Modern Art collection. Miriam ColÓn, whose Puerto Rican Traveling Theater gives summertime performances in ghetto streets from the back of a flatbed truck, has opened the first Hispanic off-Broadway theater in a recycled West Side firehouse and will offer plays in both English and Spanish. On the Lower East...
...desert west of the Suez Canal. A bagpipe band skirled It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, as MiG-21 fighters screamed overhead, and 10,000 Egyptian troops-accompanied by a stunning array of military hardware-paraded under a blistering sun. It was one of modern Egypt's most imposing military displays. Nonetheless, the message was that Anwar Sadat was ready to wage peace, not war-albeit from a position of strength...
...Bunting Institute sponsors 25 fellows and 10 research associates in residence. All fellows are professional women; their fields vary, but 25 per cent work in the arts. The group of research associates includes one man this year; these scholars work on projects for publication relating to women in modern society...
What is perhaps most notable about the current Fogg exhibition of works from the Abstract Expressionist period is simply its presence in the museum which seems hard-pressed to give much attention to the existence of modern art. The Fogg has presented several temporary shows of modern art in recent years, but the museum keeps its permanent collection of twentieth century work largely away from the public gaze in libraries, offices and storerooms...
This period is one of America's first and most significant contributions to the history of modern art. The movement which reached its high-point in the late 1940's and early 1950's, stressed the role of the unconscious in artistic expression. The artist, in a sense, painted his emotions articulating them in line, color, form and brushstrokes...