Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albright Art Gallery's coup of the year in acquiring Clyfford Still's Red and Black reveals a direction that should catch on-artist selecting museum instead of the old-hat method of museum selecting artist. As for the Museum of Modern Art's having to cool its heels for two years in order to own Still's work-good. They're such an impulsive group...
Collector Guggenheim's vast private museum embraces, as British Critic Sir Herbert Read once put it, "all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful...
Last week Peggy Guggenheim moved to keep it that way, and by so doing dashed the hopes of museum directors round the world. After long pondering the future of her collection (she once offered to will it to famed Renaissance Specialist Bernard Berenson, now 92, and was laughingly refused), Peggy called in her attorneys to set up a foundation that would permanently preserve her palazzo collection, thus in effect bequeathing it to the Venetians...
...earthiness and cruel drama. Rivera was a great enough artist to bridge the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and the 15th and 20th centuries. Most of his easel pictures -society portraits, nightclub nudes and tourist bouquets-are likely to pass away like grass now that Rivera is gone. The Indian museum-temple that he built to house his pre-Columbian collection will doubtless remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic for Communism (as in the case of the destroyed apotheosis of Lenin painted for Manhattan...
...exhibit of Mr. Basaldella's work, signed simply Mirko, will be shown at the Fogg Art Museum later this year. His sculpture has been exhibited through Europe and the United States...