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...Alves Theater has been rebuilt after its destruction by fire two years ago. The University of Bahia, which last week inaugurated a new, glass-walled Polytechnic School, has fired an artistic rebirth with new schools of sacred art, Afro-Asian studies and theater. Argentine Artist Carybe, who painted the mural in American Airlines' Idlewild terminal (TIME, Aug. 15), has settled in Salvador; Genaro de Carvalho, a leading maker of modern tapestries, lives there. Keeping abreast of the trend, the Catholic Church is pushing completion of its university, with colleges in law, medicine and philosophy already functioning...
...local TV program. Kansas City's forthright Artist Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period...
Says California Painter Ricco Lebrun: "Rome's greatness says, 'We have achieved our ideals. You can achieve yours.' " Stirred by the Sistine Chapel, Lebrun is hard at work on a vast vinylite-and-cement mural, depicting scenes from Genesis. Equally inspired by Rome is Harvard-trained Henry Millon, 33, art historian and architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome...
...good things that Americans have yet to discover in their own heritage. The 125 canvases, roughly half the collection of Detroit Businessman Larry Fleischman, reflect a warmly romantic taste, and uncompromising standards too. Among them: The Uncanny Badger is a strange picture by John La Farge, a mural painter and stained-glass designer of renown who worked mostly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It was inspired by a trip to Japan with his famed friend, Historian-Biographer Henry Adams. In a note scribbled on the picture's back La Farge wrote: "With the Japanese, the badger is uncanny...
...past few weeks several alumni have objected to the mural and called for its removal. Most Quincyites, according to the Mascle, feel these "old men" should "mind their own business...