Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the national failure was a fact, and its anatomy was as open to inspection as a skeleton in a museum...
Last fortnight Harvard's Fogg Museum did them honor with the most comprehensive Pre-Raphaelite show ever seen in the U.S. A chalky procession of anemic heroes with torches, washed-out heroines with doves, empty-eyed angels with bubbles, and chubby babies with bouquets, the show seemed to modern eyes like the interminable (though carefully censored) maunderings of a none-too-bright schoolgirl. Harvard students found it dull as dishwater. The Handwriting on the Frame...
...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
...learn the new rules thoroughly you had to go to Paris-and many young U.S. artists did. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum (now under the wing of the arch-conservative Metropolitan) honored the native sons who had brought the principles of Paris back to Manhattan, and had made them stick. In an exhibition called "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," it showed the 1908-22 works of Karfiol, Weber, Demuth, Sheeler, Marin, Hartley, and-surprisingly enough-Thomas Hart Benton...
Obsessing Images. With a huge retrospective show, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week crowned Chagall as one of the most important living painters. Said James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Museum's painting department: "Our debt is to an artist who has brought poetry back into painting...