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...PIET MONDRIAN-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Mondrian depicted nature-before he stripped it to its bare essentials-in scenes of Dutch windmills, rivers and forests. These drawings and oils, done between 1905 and 1908, show keen insights and rhythmic vitality in a self-assured style, but offer little indication of the plastic purist he was to become (through May 23). For that, see "Mondrian, De Stijl and Their Impact," at Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th, where his spatial austerity and its potential for beauty is fully realized in his own and in the works of 22 followers. Through...
Billy Graham has a handsome tabernacle, in which a filmed version of his appeal has already made more than 50 "decisions for Christ." And the $3,500,000 Vatican Pavilion houses, among other treasures, the fair's most honored guest-Michelangelo's famed Pietà, his white marble statue of the dead Christ in the lap of his mother...
...there," pointed one proud Pinkerton. "She's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen." "She" is not Sally Rand; she is Michelangelo's Pietà, a star attraction at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Despite doomsayers, Michelangelo's Pietà survived its ocean trip, emerged intact from its elaborate packing cases, and settled proudly atop a pedestal in the Vatican Pavilion...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
Some critics are horrified by the whole thing. Sniffed the New York Times's oft-embattled John Canaday: "The statue looks somehow helpless and cold, as if being subjected to refrigeration." Retorted Mielziner: "I have seen the Pietà on and off for 22 years, and never have I seen it look better...