Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the end of the world had come. One among them had a different thought; he dashed off to a friend's studio to make a lithograph of the disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned...
Rosenberg's latest museum exhibition at Washington's Corcoran Gallery last week once again proved his own happy confession: "I have never been able to lock the world out of my studio." Rosenberg avoids flashy technique and fashionable abstraction. Instead, he paints loose, free and colorful impressions of the things he loves: flowers, fields, streams and especially the Adirondack Mountains...
This strange and splendid treasure has been touring the U.S., was on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week. In August it will return to Turkey. The find opens a new chapter in the history of art, providing a missing link between the culture of the Euphrates basin and that of archaic Greece. Similarities in style show that Greek traders and marauders must have brought home in their hollow ships a mass of Phrygian treasure-which in turn helped shape Greek...
Prior to the dedication and opening performance, local citizens prominent in the arts, business and industry attended a formal dinner at the Museum of Science. They then proceeded by boats up the Charles River to a specially constructed dock near the new theatre. During the 35-minute ride, expensive cigars, small bottles of brandy, and coffee were distributed. On disembarkation the riders were met by bright lights and a barrage of television cameras. And during the first intermission of Twelfth Night, a fireworks display was set off over the River...
...entire Boston Arts Center is the result of the vision and collaboration of four enterprising men: Perry T. Rathbone '33, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts; William Morris Hunt '36, Executive Producer of the Cambridge Drama Festival; Nelson W. Aldrich '34, Chairman of the Board, Boston Arts Festival: and Jerome M. Rosenfeld, President of Jerome Press Publications...