Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Bryan Ward-Perkins, Director of the British School in Rome, will be the first Jackson lecturer. He will deliver two illustrated lectures on "Etruria and Rome" at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12, in the Semitic Museum...
...Italy's leading sculptors, Manzu won the grand prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948, was commissioned by the Vatican in 1950 to do a bronze door at St. Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each man has his way of expressing the poetry within him. Some sculptors try the abstract way. My way is the figurative way." His series of religious figures and his robed female figures...
THIS week the eyes of most art-loving Texans are on oils, not oil. With Houston the center of the American Federation of Arts' 1957 convention, and Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth standing by to receive the convention's airlift tour, the four cities' museums, galleries, private homes and department stores have turned themselves into showcases for art, displaying everything from such private collections as Social Leader Ima Hogg's Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored...
Hallam L. Movius '30, Curator of Paleolithic Archeology in the Peabody Museum, has been one of the country's foremost authorities on the Stone Age man, through his explorations in Ireland, France, Central Europe and Burma...
...French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man show in nine years at prices ranging from $4,000 to $6,000, and a German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris) and ''one of the most influential painters of the postwar period" (in Germany). In the U.S., where Hartung is having his first one-man show at Manhattan...