Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattanites were interested but not immediately ecstatic. Though the exhibition was boldly billed "Art of Tomorrow" to outbid the Museum of Modern Art's "Art in Our Time," a few critics meanly suggested that it was actually art of the past. Curator Hilla Rebay, her blue eyes ablaze, rose to this with two good observations and one transcendental line...
...objects. At the last moment casual Parisians were disgusted to learn that "Guggenheim Jeune," all aflutter, had canceled the show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with a fulltime curator in the person of Britain's foremost art-explainer, scholarly Herbert Read...
...Americanism in the arts lags behind Pan-Americanism in politics there was evidence in Manhattan that it at least exists. Opened at the Riverside Museum was the first sizable exhibition ever held in the U. S. of contemporary art from Latin-American countries. Its somewhat anomalous front man: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, in his capacity as Chairman of the United States New York World's Fair Commission. To Henry Wallace's invitation, nine nations had responded with 343 works...
...painting in our country, see work by Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that more students do not take advantage of the many exhibits, permanent and temporary, which are housed in the galleries...
...Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures in Manhattan, to raise money for the War Orphans Fund of her good friend Mme Chiang Kaishek...