Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before World War II, it was common practice for U.S. artists either to tout or tear apart "The American Scene." Last week two big annual shows (the Whitney Museum's "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" and the "120th Annual" of the conservative National Academy of Design) seemed to say that times have changed...
Last week 15 newly acquired Shang bronzes went on view in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the cups had a tripod base which seemed to stand on tiptoe, and a lid in the shape of a swallow with outstretched wings and tail (see cut). The ambition to drink from the wings of a flying swallow might well have cost someone a kingdom...
...Nonobjective painting is a kind of cultism. It's one of those precious, pansy arts above the public comprehension. Every decadent society has produced these esoteric art forms which give the snobs a chance to demonstrate their superiority. The sooner Mr. Rockefeller tears down that Museum of Modern Art of his with all its nonobjective paintings, the better off American art will be. The only ones who hang around that museum are a bunch of softies who don't know how to drink or do anything...
...DuBridge, Director of the Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., will be guest speaker at the annual convention of the Society of Sigma XI which will be held in Fogg Museum this evening at 8:30. Business sessions will follow...
Died. Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, 81, father of the U.S. bird-sanctuary system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...