Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's Dutch-born Willem de Kooning, 55. A slim man with steel-grey hair, De Kooning does not welcome the title, shuts himself up in his Greenwich Village studio for weeks at a time, refusing to see visitors or acknowledge telegrams. When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter offered him a one-man exhibition, he turned it down. He was not ready, he said. In the past three years he has allowed only three large paintings to be sold. Word passed around that De Kooning had the jitters and would not show. But last...
Great religious art demands no less than wholeness, harmony and radiance. If these virtues are generally far to seek, they do come together at moments in art history, and places on earth. The Renaissance masterpieces at the Vatican Museum are just such a coming together...
...moment, a collector who has chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...
...Wild West, which has supplied the U.S. with some of its most stirring epics and evocative art, curiously had no major museum it could call its own. Last week, with the opening...
Cody has an Easterner to thank for its new museum, and a woman at that. One day in 1890, a young sculptress named Gertrude Vanderbilt went to see Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and his Wild West show, was so fascinated that she went backstage to ask the colonel if she could sketch some of his mustangs. It was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the West, which persisted even after her marriage to Financier Harry Payne Whitney. She sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with...