Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls of the Baltimore Museum's Junior Gallery were covered by an iconography of the familiar world, seen by the children in very unfamiliar focus. Most of the pictures kept well within the bounds of childhood experience (animals, vehicles, houses, rooms) But some were well outside. One surrealist moppet had painted a huge cactus tree containing a human face, and surrounded by sunflowers surmounted by chickens and peacocks. There were three pictures of lovers on park benches. Art experts and child psychologists who were queried said that children paint such scenes because of unsatisfied curiosity: they do not understand...
Straphanging in a Manhattan subway train, Horace H. F. Jayne was jostled by an idea. Why should so much of the world's great painting be hidden away in the public vastnesses of the Metropolitan Museum? Why should not the old masters appear on subway car cards beside the catsup and the lingerie ads, and be viewed by the 5,638,000 people who ride New York City's subways every month...
...Mission to Moscow" a supremely unimaginative and literal rendering of the book, should have been relased a year sooner. As it is, we all knew that Russia was fighting the Germans and the wax-museum figures of "Mission to Moscow" lost any interest that they might ever have had. "The North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem...
...walls of one of the main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
Reluctant Genius. Preston's mother was determined that he should be a genius. "I was never allowed," Sturges says, "to play with other kids. They wedged art into me from every side. I was dragged into every goddamn museum in the world." There were gay moments, but they usually stank of culture...