Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic lantern slides. But all agreed the incident was historic...
Elected Vice-Presidents of the Alumni Association, to serve three years, were Arthur W. Page '05, of New York, and Richard C. Floyd '11, of Brookline, Mass. Mr. Page is Vice-President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Southern Education Foundation, Teachers College, N. Y., and Bennington College. Mr. Floyd, a manufacturer is Vice-President of Bird and Son, and for several years has been President of the Varsity Club...
...concerts planned for Cambridge those of the Stradivarius Quartet are probably exciting the greatest amount of interest. They will play publicity in a series of concerts beginning at the Fogg Art Museum on October 26, and will also give one concert in each of the Houses during the year...
Scene of much happy bustling last week was the old brownstone mansion on sedate James Street that houses the Syracuse (N. Y.) Museum of Fine Arts. Cause: the assembling, judging and opening of the eighth annual National Ceramic Exhibition. For ceramists, the occasion was excuse for a jolly get-together, as well as a chance to see what other designers were up to. Lay folk could admire and be amused by the assorted exhibits. Sum of their reaction: bric-a-brac is coming back...
Prime mover of the National Ceramic Exhibition is tall, energetic, sparkling-eyed Anna Wetherill Olmsted, director of the Syracuse museum. She started the show in 1932 as a memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought the show to national importance. Overjoyed was she in 1937 when a similar exhibition of U. S. ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists...