Word: mus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers, pillboxes, corks, postage stamps, piston rings, things usually dug out of pantry drawers. Much of it is deliberately absurd: witness a board embedded with hand compasses; a cubbyholed compartment with cork balls, alphabet blocks and a seashell; or a case containing 15 shot glasses called Petite Musée. They are all symbols shorn of obvious symbolism, junk treasured to jangle the imagination. The work has roots in the cubism of Braque, where newspaper clippings were glued amid the oils, and branches embracing the Dada of Marcel Duchamp. But Cornell's intent is neither to fracture space...
Carl Ruggles, D. MUS., composer and painter. As an artist as well as musician, you have truly earned the attribution "a 20th century Leonardo...
...suspect Ministers were kept tightly penned in by the tanks and armored cars of the green-bereted Siliwangi Division and the tough R.P.K.A.D. paracommandos (comparable to the U.S. Special Forces). As the generals patiently shuttled back and forth to Bogor, Sukarno held them off with his celebrated command of mus-jawarah, the cerebral Javanese equivalent of blarney...
...great curtain, 33 ft. by 55 ft., dropped again, and again was greeted with delight. The occasion: a special festival performance of three ballets on which Picasso had worked, put on by the French provincial city of Toulouse to open an accompanying, summer-long exhibition in the Musée des Augustins of his costume designs, decors, sketches, curtains, and related paintings...
This first, full-fledged exhibition of Picasso's theater period was organized by the Musée's new curator, Denis Milhau, 32. Casting about for a splashy debut, it occurred to him that nobody, nowhere, had yet focused exclusively on this aspect of Picasso's prodigious career. Mindful that "the biggest collector of Picassos is Picasso," Milhau sought an interview. Four months later he got in to see the painter-who turned out to be delighted with the idea: "Bon. D'accord. C'est amusant!" ("Good. All right. It's fun!"). The maestro...