Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunch, then talked the Brazilian government into giving him a $3,000,000 loan to finance his purchases. As the "museum" grew, it was moved from one makeshift quarters to another. In recent years, it has been housed in Chateaubriand's office building in downtown Sāo Paulo. But the city fathers were finally stirred into action, put up the millions to build the collection a home of its own. Its official opening on March 12 will come just a year after Chateaubriand's death...
What will most likely be the third biggest city in the world 20 years from now? Wrong. Not London, not Los Angeles, not Peking-but Sāo Paulo, topped only by Tokyo and New York. Gaining some 300,000 new settlers every year, Brazil's Sāo Paulo is the world s fastest-growing city and, with 5,430,000 inhabitants, is now the world's eighth largest. This week at long last, Sao Paulo could display an art museum worthy of its growing stature...
...museum and the rich collection it houses are the almost single-handed achievements of one man-Sao Paulo's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand ("Chatô") Bandeira de Mello, a short stout press lord with a considerable resemblance to New York's late Fiorello...
...Guardia in both appearance and personality. In 1947, noting that Sāo Paulo (and indeed all Brazil) was sadly deficient in art, he proclaimed, "A nation without art is backward and barbaric," and set out to remedy this defect...
Quick Swoop. He hired Italian-born Pietro Maria Bardi as his artistic guide and installed him also as director of the Sao Paulo Art Museum-then a museum in name only, except in Chatô's imagination. As chief of some 30-odd newspapers, 19 magazines, 22 radio and 15 TV stations. Chatô had plenty of money of his own. But not even that kind of tycoon can command enough millions to assemble an art collection of the scope Chatô had in mind. So Chatô did not scruple to use his press facilities to extract...