Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Three days before, Harry Truman had struck. Stevenson was still crowding his hours with visits and visitors, handshakes, receptions, whisperings, conferences. Yet the crucial matters of the moment now seemed strangely suspended, like a mural of some bygone battle posted on a restaurant wall. It was a lovely yacht club, Stevenson mused; the new terrace was a perfect place for outdoor entertaining. Had anybody noticed the large number of yachts moored near by? How did the Chicago Cubs make out (Cubs 0, Redlegs 2)? When...
From Paris last week came word that UNESCO has commissioned six of the world's leading artists to adorn its new headquarters. One of the biggest commissions, for a conference room mural covering 1,100 sq. ft., was by no means likely to please some of UNESCO's more vociferous U.S. critics; it went to Millionaire Communist Pablo Picasso...
...contribution to the curved concrete structure in Paris will be as international as UNESCO. Britain's Sculptor Henry Moore will do a figure for the main piazza, and French Jean Arp will do a bas-relief for the library. Spain's Joan Miro will also do a mural, and Manhattan's Isamu Noguchi will contribute a couple of oriental gardens complete with his own abstract sculptures and an Alexander Calder mobile. In addition, two leading designers, Herbert Bayer of the U.S. and Nizzoli of Italy, have been commissioned to handle interior design, with an area of supervision...
Died. Sir Frank Brangwyn, 89, British mural painter, longtime mainstay of Britain's Royal Academy, best known in the U.S. for his sepia-and-white, archacademic panels (New Frontiers) in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building lobby); in Ditchling, England. Because he always hated having his works "pawed over by a lot of strangers," Sir Frank gave away some half million dollars' worth to friends and fans. Others are pawed over in: the Canadian Parliament Building (Ottawa), London's Royal Exchange Building, the Cleveland Court House, Missouri's capitol building, the civic center in Swansea...
...years later the first signs of decomposition were noted. By this week it was clear that Rivera's mural was a wash out. Mexico's National Restoration Institute, after six months of vain attempts to save it, announced that it was abandoning the rapidly deteriorating mural to the ravages of running water and sediment. Rivera, in seclusion in Acapulco, was unavailable for discussion of the decision. But old rival and fellow Communist, David Siqueiros, was glad to oblige: "When Diego started painting this mural, I told him that polystyrene, like any other paint, was not going to resist...