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When a man named Elie Nadelman died two years ago, his passing was barely noted. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective show that went a long way to prove that Nadelman, who made two splashy successes, then tried to hide, had been one of the best sculptors the U.S. had seen...
Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum, which takes the long view of art, has always been a little shortsighted about contemporary U.S. artists. The pioneering Whitney Museum, four miles away in Greenwich Village, specializes in the contemporary. It seemed a good idea for the two museums to get together, and for the past five years they had been planning to do it: the Whitney was to quit its downtown quarters, move into a new wing at ,he well-heeled Metropolitan. But last week the deal was called off. Both sides issued explanations...
Said the Metropolitan's Director Francis Henry Taylor: "The Whitney Museum trustees have decided to maintain an independent, experimental gallery." The Metropolitan, he added, would still take "an active part in the collection and exhibition of contemporary American...
...exhibit worth it? To make sure that it would be, Pepsi had screened the 156 final canvases through six juries of artists and museum men (Exhibit Director Roland McKinney served on all six). The resulting show, which ran the gamut from naturalism to sheer abstraction, contained very few duds. It proved again the energy, variety and competence of a number of U.S. painters, known and unknown, doing their work in all parts of the country. Among the standouts...
Last week 100 pasted pictures went on exhibition in Manhattan's wide-windowed Museum of Modern Art. The museum had fancy frames and a fancy French name for them, collages (rhymes with garage), which was the word Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris had used when they first tried the trick back...