Word: mus
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...package, than the collection of design and fine art which has been maintained for six decades by the Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Some consider it equaled elsewhere in the world only by London's Victoria and Albert and Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Now this museum is closed to the public-and suddenly it is the center of a controversy that is stirring the art world far beyond the galleries of Manhattan...
...collected by his pupil and onetime beloved, Painter Gabriele Münter), and the collection of Nina Kandinsky, the artist's widow, who lives in France. But Director Thomas Messer pulled off an even more impressive coup of roundupmanship: with the help of Mme. Kandinsky and Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne, he engineered delicate negotiations with Moscow, bringing seven paintings in the show from Russia, on loan from Moscow's Municipal Museum of Modern Western Art, the Russian Museum in Leningrad, and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, all dating from...
...Belle Inertie. Unhappily, in the case of Moreau, the quest for ancestry gets a bit out of hand; his is a case in which a painter has been more ignored than unknown, since his work has long been embalmed in the musty, state-run Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Not until the Louvre, apparently at the instigation of Culture Minister André Malraux, put on a big Moreau show last summer (TIME, July 21) was the general public suddenly informed that Moreau should be remembered not only as the brilliant teacher of Matisse and Rouault but also...
...your reporting of the award to Mark Tobey of the 1961 Carnegie Prize for painting, you neglected to mention that just the week previously the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre had opened a magnificent retrospective show of Tobey's work, covering almost 300 paintings from...
Last week the man seemed to be everywhere. There was an exhibit of his drawings in Paris, a show of lithographs in Holland. France's Musée des Arts Décoratifs is planning a major retrospective, and a gallery in the West German city of Hannover has just opened a display of 88 works that left visitors wavering between awe and revulsion. In Manhattan, World House Galleries was holding a Dubuffet retrospective of its own-a modest (41 works) but well-selected sampling of a strange career...