Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for a University wide art exhibit were announced last night with the event, scheduled to extend over a period of two weeks, opening in the Fogg Art Museum on February...
Pablo Picasso was a changed man once again. A change of scene had done it. He had left Paris last summer to roam the warm Cote d'Azur. At Antibes the 17th Century Castle Grimaldi, which had been turned into a museum, caught his eye. The curator happened to be a friend of his and told 65-year-old Picasso to make himself at home...
Only the seagulls, swooping and screaming in the blue rectangles beyond Picasso's green studio, could glimpse what he was up to. When museum visitors paused to inquire why a first floor door was barred, the guide sympathetically explained: "There's a crazy artist inside; nobody can enter...
Picasso himself was back in Paris last week, with nothing to say about his change of mood. He had locked up his Riviera labors-about 50 pieces, including gouaches and drawings-and left the key with his friend the curator, who hoped that Antibes would make the green museum room a "Picasso Hall." That was all right with Antibes' practical-minded Mayor Jean Pastour. "In my mind," said the Mayor, "Picasso's paintings are . . . monstrous things. . . .Yet the world is full of madmen who love Picasso, so if Picasso gives our museum some paintings, we will accept...
...Letter Man Morris Kantor is one of the select group of artists whose pictures hang in all three big Manhattan museums: the conservative Metropolitan, the middle-minded Whitney, and the freewheeling, streamlined Museum of Modern Art. These diverse honors make Kantor a three-letter man in U.S. painting, but not necessarily an All-American; they are as much a tribute to the diversity as to the quality...