Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...
...willing ear to Lord Duveen, he handled the business end of his collection with the same care that he watched ticker tapes. In 1937, by an arrangement with New York State, he formed the Jules Bache Foundation. This enabled him to live on the third floor of his Manhattan Museum, enjoy his pictures, pay no taxes on the property. (In 1936, so many Bache holdings were outside the U.S. that Art-Lover Bache was unable to pay any Federal income tax at all that year.) But before he died, Jules Bache changed his mind about a projected Bache Museum, which...
...walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions is not cricket.) But no departing visitor had a suspicious bulge. At 5 o'clock, in an atmosphere of tense frustration, the museum closed its massive doors. At week's end, Metropolitan Director Francis Henry Taylor, having issued...
...theft was only the third from the Metropolitan since it opened its doors in 1872. Last theft was in 1927 when three miniatures were stolen. The pictures were later found stuffed down a drain- minus their gold frames. Thefts of art works from museums are rare, because such goods are virtually unmarketable. Most museum thieves are psychopaths or fanatical art-lovers. Among recent U.S. art robberies, most sensational was the Brooklyn Museum's loss of ten old masters at one blow, in 1933. The Brooklyn thieves hid in the museum until late at night, skillfully lowered the paintings...
...from the Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto...