Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after Homer's death. Washington's National Gallery is honoring his memory with a big retrospective show. The 241 pictures proved to the hilt that Homer's passion was for realizing life as he saw it. and as forthrightly as he possibly could. Said Museum Director John Walker: "One of our functions is to honor great American artists of the past, and we plan to keep on doing it with shows like this every two years; but Homer is really my hero...
...world's great repositories of primitive art is Harvard's Peabody Museum-where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts plays host to hundreds of visitors each day, but it has had no primitive art to show them. Last week the two museums joined forces under an agreement whereby Boston's Fine Arts will exhibit Harvard's primitive treasures, celebrated their new partnership with a massive exhibition of masterpieces of primitive art, with the Peabody's best supplemented by loans from private...
Central America, that were discovered by a Peabody Museum expedition (see, color). Like the vast majority of items on display, they 'could not be called "beautiful" in any ordinary sense of the term. But, as Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone pointed out in the exhibition catalogue, "beauty has become only one province...
...Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy deserts the revolutionary game for a job in a travel agency engaged in selling Ireland's hobnailed charms to rich and innocent Americans...
Maillol's sculpture has seldom been shown in Boston, the museum points out. It is good to see Aphrodite and the muse hand in hand behind enemy lines...