Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, Ariz...
...Harvard Dramatic Club voted last night to produce Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie and Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates, next fall. Giraudoux's play, which may be presented in the Fogg Museum courtyard, is translated from the French by Christopher...
...avantgarde. A year ago he was practically unknown; since then he has had a sellout show in Manhattan, has exhibited in Paris and Milan, was the only American to win a painting prize at the Carnegie International, and has seen three of his paintings bought for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. Almost despite himself, greying, unassuming Alfred Barr, 57, has become the most powerful tastemaker in modern art, since he largely makes the taste for the museum, and the museum, in turn, sets the taste of those who think that...
...paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing the lower parts of four faces, done...
...masters runs to some 500 works, including dozens that rival even the Holbein in quality. But this banquet for the eyes is off the tourist track at Lugano, tucked away in a wing of Thyssen's cypress-shaded palazzo. Made public partly for tax purposes, the museum is not open all year or every day, but whoever gets to Lugano between April 1 and Nov. 1 can take the trolley to the Thyssen estate and present himself at the gates Friday through Monday for one of the treats of his life...