Word: museums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world's fine pianists. Today many swear that he is the greatest interpreter of Mozart and Ravel. Last week, to mark the centennial of Fauré's birth, he led a group of fellow French artists in a program of the composer's chamber music; the Museum of Modern Art audience of arty cosmopolitans voted it a fitting tribute and a notable curtain to another successful Casadesus season...
...duly considered, but finally dropped in favor of more clearly cultural projects. Two of these were in full cry last week-a show of "Contemporary American Painting" at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Art of the United Nations" at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum, determined not to look like an arsenal of antiquities, last week went way back to ancient Greece for a sprucing-up act. Visitors who associate Greek art with dusty plaster and dreary drapes of frozen chitons will have their eyes opened: the Met's dolled-up Greek Art collection has a fresh-as-a-daisy look...
These are some of the conclusions about animal behavior reached by the late G. Kingsley Noble, onetime curator of experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...
...ironies of war, the National Gallery passed through the frightful destruction of the blitz and robomb years with only one gallery (No. 26) damaged. Far harder hit were the British Museum, whose Greek and Roman rooms were destroyed by incendiaries in 1941, and the Tate Gallery, which will not reopen for six months...