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Downstairs again. Of the 12 or 13 extant sculptures of the Sumerian king Goudia, who lived about 2350 B.C., a good number are in the Louvre. One is in the Boston Musuem. The portrait of his head may well be the most beautiful piece of sculpture ever done. In the Louvre, they sell a full-sized reproduction of that head, made in the Louvre workshops, for 55 francs. I have one in my bedroom at home. There is also one next to the while Hummurabi...
Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Musuem in New York, has been making a big splash recently with his call for greater involvement of the public in the affairs of the art world. People at Harvard often talk of breaking down the barriers which have traditionally kept the University aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community...
...frightening consistency with which directors, curators and critics have bypassed or condemned the greats of their time has led the hierarchy of this musuem to proceed with greater humility. As opposed to extreme selectivity here, the Paris Museum of Modern Art offers as wide a forum for contemporary efforts as possible...
...Faust: Bilder and Inscenierungeu," Professor von der Leyen, Germanic Musuem...
...Great Apes". Hooton, Professor Semitie Musuem...