Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles County Museum is the West Coast's largest, but until recently its shortcomings have given Los Angeles a reputation in the art world as the city of lost opportunities. Rich art collectors bypassed the museum in their bequests; in 1951 the famed Arensberg collection of modern paintings was snatched from under its nose by the Philadelphia Museum. This week the Los Angeles County Museum had something worth crowing about. Up on the wall of its softly lighted Spanish Gallery went a handsome new acquisition with a resounding title and glamorous history: Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz...
...Rubens so admired the Betrayal that he asked Van Dyck to make a larger version, Van Dyck repositioned Malchus and remolded Judas' cloak. The results so pleased Philip IV of Spain that, after Rubens' death, he purchased the version, which today hangs in Madrid's Prado Museum...
...seeing, nearly completed, the building he had created. One of the profession's freest spirits and by general consensus the most versatile designer and draftsman of his generation, Ed Stone was a pioneer modernist. He early set his mark on such buildings as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres of glass façades. chrome and exposed steel. Instead. Architect Stone turned...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, designed in 1937-38 (completed in 1939) with the late Philip L. Goodwin, one of the earliest U.S. buildings constructed in the International Style. Conceived as a luminous rectangle, incorporating vast, flexible loft space for exhibitions, and an inviting, open ground floor, it is fronted by a wall of insulated glass to give the interior an alabaster glow. Stone calls it "a simple, vivid, workable building...
Paris dealers scooped up some $9,500,000 for their 40,000-odd artists last year; the Ecole de Paris remains the most talked about, the most museum-represented "school" in the world. But there are no revolutions, no barricades. There are no new leaders to rank with or even near Picasso and Chagall and Braque. There is a group of talented artists who paint in styles ranging from realistic to expressionistic, from primitive to symbolic (see color pages). Among the best: ¶ Alfred Manessier, 47 (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955), who was shaken out of his surrealist visions by World...