Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stillness of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a crowd peering at the works of Matisse and Picasso, she clapped sharply for attention, gathered a little crowd about her, and began a speech. These paintings, she said, were: 1) "the product of diseased minds"; 2) "garbage masquerading as art"; 3) a racket imposed on the public. From her hearers, reported PM, came a warm spatter of applause...
...cure that disease-nearly all of it melted down for shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...
When the Army transport James Parker docked at a Manhattan pier last fortnight, nobody on board would talk about the 40 crates in the hold. The War Department was only slightly more talkative: it admitted that the crates contained a priceless museum-load of old masters. The paintings had been brought to the U.S. from destroyed or damaged German museums. Washington's National Gallery of Art had arranged (through its board chairman, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone) to keep them "in trust for the people of Germany or the other rightful owners...
Last week Chief Justice Stone produced a list of the paintings, which was sure to make museum directors come hurrying round to beg for just a peek. Among the 202 masterpieces were five Botticellis, 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, six Van Eycks...
...ordinary carols were presented at Gardner Museum, in Boston, Sunday, and last night at Memorial Church in the Yard. They will be repeated this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and this evening at 8:15. Included in the program are some Bach choral preludes, the Pastoral Symphony from Handel's Messlah, and old French, German, and English carols...