Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final proof, said the Dutch, the faked Vermeer Christ and the Disciples in Boyman's Museum at Rotterdam shows Christ seated in a chair which was copied from a chair in van Meegeren's studio...
Does a high brow necessarily make its owner a highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...
...This is one of the advertised features of Manhattan's new Non-Objective Art Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (TIME, July...
Last week, at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, his home town got a look at 64 deftly slapdash Dong watercolors. One standout was a gay gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...
Last week Meditation's tobacco tones had disappeared, and so had Mantegna's signature. In its place was a faint scrawl. The Museum explained...