Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most strollers in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art passed by Carpaccio's murky, golden Meditation on the Passion without noticing anything wrong. Those who looked twice saw that the label said Carpaccio but the picture was signed "Andreas Mantinea" (Mantegna...
...nearly dropped my spectacles," said 62-year-old Hugh Alexander Matier. Browsing through the Seattle Art Museum's far eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...
...Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches...
Representatives of the Albany State Teachers College, of the New York Museum of Natural History, and of high schools in Kaneas City, Los Angeles, Garden City, New York, and New Britain, Connecticut, will share the speakers' platform with Dean Buck. Professor Lyman B. Greybeal, of N.Y.U. will preside...
...imaginative artist with a big idea had a little show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. He was 41-year-old Jōan Junyer, Spanish-born and Paris-trained, whose five years in the U.S. have jolted him out of plain painting into bold dreams of stage designing. His big idea: stage and dance scenery should actively participate in the performance...