Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ago, the paintings are "touched" (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich's Ethnographical Museum last week hung copies of a much older and almost unknown aboriginal art. discovered by the museum director, Andreas Lommel, in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia. Smaller, more naturalistic and far more elegant than Wondjina art, they date back at least a thousand years...
...fact periodically brings out the detective in some critics and biographers. Treating a book as a case to be solved, the literary sleuth scours the author's life for telltale clues. With the instincts of Scotland Yard's finest, George D. Painter, a curator of the British Museum, has now tackled the massive Proust case. His findings may strike some readers as anticlimactic. It appears that Marcel Proust based Remembrance of Things Past on his remembrance of things past...
Ignacio Zuloaga, the greatest Spanish painter of the recent past (one of whose El Grecos has recently gone to the Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...
That fact alone makes Tokyo's spanking new National Museum of Western Art architectural news of the first magnitude, since it reaches so hard for perfection. Based on sketches by France's owl-wise, owl-grouchy Le Corbusier, the museum was completed by three Japanese architects who had studied with the master in the 1930s. It uses concrete, tile, French glass and Philippine teakwood to create a more finished and refined atmosphere than Le Corbusier himself enjoys. Otherwise, it faithfully represents his solutions to the two great problems of museum architecture: display" and lighting...
Architectural design at its height creates interior spaces that are just as exciting in themselves as the façades. To enter a magnificent building is like entering a work of sculpture and seeing it anew from within. Yet such excitement is distracting in a museum, where the works, not the walls, are the thing. Le Corbusier, the most sculptural of all living architects, apparently kept this point well in mind at Tokyo. He braked himself to produce a squared-off, surprisingly unelaborate structure. The entrance leads straight through to a large central gallery, from which smaller galleries radiate...