Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objects that profess to explain the metaphysics of the mustache, made eggs, string and shirt fronts serve the purpose of art. In so doing he has earned for himself a reputation as "a one-man laboratory for the discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor Arp a thoroughgoing retrospective show that includes 113 paste-ups, oils, string pictures, wood reliefs, and stone sculptures (see color...
...squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture to be erected in Virginia since Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia...
Final test for Director Cheek came when a black-tie cross section of Virginia's first families turned up at the museum, inspected models of other Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture Feininger is a German painter. At the Whitney Museum of American Art he is an American painter. The ambiguity, which is more than geographical, does him credit. It bespeaks the potencies of the individual...
...objects owned by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates will be shown in a special exhibition at the Fogg Museum scheduled for the middle of February...