Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to the problem is that comparatively untapped branch of modern art, German Expressionism. During the past few months, this school, which has for so long been a prime concern of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, has received a significant build-up through exhibitions, books, and publicity...
German Art at Harvard, 1890-1915, is the first of two chronologically arranged exhibitions to be presented at Busch-Reisinger this winter. Both consist of works from the permanent collections of that museum, Fogg and Houghton...
...response of man that lies deeper than the shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists in history. With 15 of the 40 surviving paintings attributed to him collected in one room, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (see color pages) is today his finest monument...
...Whitney Museum's annual roundup of contemporary American art may not accurately reflect the merits of modern American painting, but it is a jolting reminder of the power and influence of the new academy of abstract expressionism. Throughout most of the Whitney last week chaos reigned. More than a score of exhibitors seemed to feel that where there's a Willem (de Kooning) there's a way-through large and sticky briars of paint to a darkling goal...
Died. Francis Henry Taylor, 54, bulky director of the Worcester Art Museum, longtime (1940-55) policy-toppling director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than...