Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William S. Hart, hard-riding hero of the silent horse operas, who last month gave $50,000 for a park and museum in Hollywood, shelled out another $100,000-to the Connecticut Humane Society for a memorial to his sister: a shelter for stray dogs and cats in Westport, Conn...
...King Tut story he came down with pneumonia. He never fully recovered. Though the Times listed him as managing editor for another seven years, he actually retired in 1925. He spent the succeeding years studying mathematics and astronomy, now & then catching Sir James Jeans or the British Museum in error. Last week, in his Park Avenue apartment, he got a piece of news by telephone: his only daughter had died. Two hours later, Carr Van Anda, 80, one of journalism's greats, died of a heart attack...
Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...
Last week the Metropolitan's trustees thought they had a solution. With an eye to the "comfort [and] sanity" of visitors, the Museum announced a $3-million-plus postwar plan. Taking a tip from the Louvre, which has long been divided into ten sections, the Metropolitan will reshuffle and sort itself out into five separate museums, each with an entrance of its own, plainly marked for the visitor who wants to know exactly where he is going. Tentative titles for the five new entrances: the Museum of Ancient Art, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Picture Gallery, the Museum...
...museum last week issued a shrewdly challenging invitation to the public: "It has always been taken for granted that the English were the great masters, and the Americans just copied them. Go to the Museum and see if this is true." The art museum was the Rhode Island School of Design's in Providence. On its walls were hung 102 carefully chosen British and American paintings of the 1670-to-1825 period. The provocative question they raised: did colonial New England have a genuine native art, or did early American painters merely turn out second-rate English imitations...