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Paintings by modern Americans, increasingly sought and sold by Europe's private galleries and collectors, are beginning to trickle into a few big public European museums. For its first work by an American of any period, the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo last week got a wistful and lyric portrait called Albert's Son, by Andrew Wyeth, perhaps the most commercially successful of serious U.S. artists. At the other end of the artistic spectrum, the Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired...
...nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf...
...FIRING Oslo...
Edifice Complex? Sir: As an American born in Norway, I was startled by the interior of the new American embassy building in Oslo. How Architect Saarinen could create this sinister prison interior with its barred rows of cells (not to mention the snake pit in the center) as symbolic of the freedom for which America stands is incomprehensible to me-as is my former countrymen's enthusiastic approval...
...with any bold architectural venture, the results have often met with a mixed critical reaction. Eero Saarinen's Oslo embassy (opposite) has been warmly praised, while his nearly completed London embassy, which combines traditional Portland stone with straw-colored aluminum trim, has been sharply taken to task for being too brash and bright. In New Delhi, Edward D. Stone adopted the form of an Indian temple and wrapped it with a lacy grille that lights up like a jewel box at night. The New Delhi embassy has been so widely admired that it now stays open on Sundays...