Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering original works of art has been unchanged since 1930. uses some definitions that date back to 1916, fails to take account of the revolution that has taken place in half a century of modern art. The travails that this situation causes an institution such as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean Arp for a forthcoming retrospective...
...Museum directors and gallery operators are expected to rally behind the Javits-Thompson effort, although they grant that many a sensible decision has been made under the present law. Case in point: when a batch of twelve "abstractions" by a London Zoo chimpanzee arrived in Baltimore, they were about to be passed as duty-free original works of art when customs inspectors identified the "artist." They assessed full duty, reasoning that when a chimp apes...
Since the first of these votive offerings was discovered in the 18th century, more than 400 have been uncovered. The best are now on display at Sardinia's National Museum at Cagliari. Despite their small dimensions, they have dignity and mystery, qualities that made them heavy with totemic power and points of reassurance in a time when minute man moved against a background of threatening and capricious nature...
...living) was dramatic. At his first one-man show in May 1957 at Seattle's Zoe Dusanne Gallery, 22 of his 24 casein and tempera paintings on rice paper were snapped up by collectors. He was honored with a two-month-long exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum this year, will have a one-man show next fall in London. Seattle Museum President-Director Richard E. Fuller, asked to pick two favorite paintings from his area for Stanford University's "Fresh Paint-1958" (now on show), chose a Horiuchi, and said: "Only a man versed in the beautiful...
...build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum-library...