Word: museumful
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There is meaning in the most brilliantly realized of Kovarsky's works, a series of seven large (40 in. by 52 in.) canvases depicting the seven-day creation of the world (see color page). Shown last fall at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, the series will be on view for the last time in Manhattan next week at a reception given by Israeli Minister Mordecai Kidron. Then it will be shipped to Israel (where it will be shown later this year in the museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), along with the stacks of canvases Kovarsky has completed...
...helping to bridge the gap between East and West are such carefully selected collections as that recently acquired by Philadelphia's Museum of Art (opposite). Containing 49 carved stone sculptures and temple fragments ranging from a 2nd-to-1st century B.C. sandstone relief on a post of a temple railing to a four-faced Siva-Linga that once topped the central column of a Hindu shrine, the collection covers more than 15 centuries, together makes up what museum officials unhesitatingly call "the most important group of Indian stone sculptures to be seen outside of India itself...
...series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...
...John Levee, 32, a talented new expatriate Paris painter who (along with Sam Francis, 33, and Paul Jenkins, 33) has made a name for himself abroad, was picked for both the Whitney and Museum of Modern Art shows (see overleaf). A U.S. Air Force officer during World War II, Levee went to Paris to study painting on the G.I. bill. First registered at the Academic Julian, he was nearly thrown out for flouting academic standards, wound up sharing the school's Grand Prix second prize with his Parisian wife. Approaching abstraction via Cezanne and the Cubists, Levee also shows...
Wartime suffering and disillusionment is the theme of an exhibition of World War I paintings, drawings, and prints by German artists now on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum...