Word: museum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the National Museum's greying Eulalia Guzmán announced in the backwoods village of Ixcateopan that "the remains of the last emperor of the Aztecs have been found" (TIME, Oct. 10), all Mexico went wild. Nearly every town in the country held a special fiesta; on Columbus Day, Dia de la Raza, the discoverer was nearly forgotten in the flowery eulogies of Cuauhtemoc, last chief of the discovered...
Using a minimum of tools, he succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point. With the few elements Leger allowed himself-poster colors and shapes that looked as if they had been stamped out of sheet metal " -he made just what he had in mind: paintings such as Disks in the City that were loud, bold, intricate and fierce as fire engines...
Nine hundred thousand people scrambled to see Van Gogh's first full-scale show in the U.S. (in 1935-36). Last week a repeat performance opened in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...Goethe collection here is one of the most complete. Goethe was in close contact with several Harvard professors and during his lifetime sent manuscripts, a set of collected works, and some scientific data to scholars here. These contributions are currently on exhibit in Widener and in the Germanic Museum...
...only books and newspapers have been stored in the building. During the war, the Army conducted a research center in the first floor, and Business School beds and Fogg Museum furniture were kept in the building at various times. Currently a huge stack of boxes of WPA documents is sitting on the first level, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library...