Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trim little Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass, was fairly bursting with sculptured emotion last week. Some figures wept, some prayed, some chewed their nails. Another sat on a pedestal and seemed to scream...
About half the pieces on exhibition had been seen before at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (TIME, April 14, 1947), which had never before exhibited a one-man show of a living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made...
When the first volume was completed, earnest young Scientist Ellerman submitted the draft of the entire proposed treatise to the British Museum. The honor of publication under museum auspices is a certain stamp of scientific recognition. With a scientist's pride, he did not consider using his own wealth to publish the book on his own. After he had chafed for four years, the museum printed it. The second volume came...
...Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa') Mead, Associate Curator of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, admitted that guilt feelings were floating around the U.S.-especially among certain groups ("Liberals have always more guilt than anyone else"). However, Dr. Mead thought guilt could be healthy-"I mean the kind of guilt which makes people pay their taxes, not throw banana peels into the street, which makes people feel responsible...
...ideal training," he says, "would combine the kind of technical skill you learn at the Boston Museum School [how to paint what you see] with the more ab stract approach [painting as a language of its own] that Black Mountain provides...