Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashion at the turn of the century, their prices began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with France's President René Coty on hand to officiate, the battlers for impressionism reached new stature in their own land. At last they have a worthy museum of their own, in the remodeled two-story Jeu de Paume* in the Tuileries Gardens facing Paris' Place de la Concorde...
...finally there are the concerts at the Gardner Museum in Boston, held every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2:45 and every Sunday at 3 p.m. The admission is free...
REACHING for superlatives in the hit song of his Broadway musical, Anything Goes, in 1934, Songster Cole Porter forged an unusual link between popular music and great art, wrote: "You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum." While France is considerably less than she was 24 years ago, the Louvre is still the top. Last January, over lunch in Manhattan with visiting Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin, TIME editors began laying the groundwork for a comprehensive report on the Louvre and its great collection, to be keyed to a two-volume study of the museum being published...
...Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have been if this collection had been retained," says Bazin mournfully. "It is the source of most of the Spanish pictures now dispersed in the galleries of Europe and America...
...Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon's Louvre the central museum for all Europe, and, incidentally, sparked a museum movement...