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...champagne, one for his architects' office, one for his scenic studio. Soviet fathers have not forgotten his design for the Neva bridge, and Joseph Urban was one of the eight foreign architects invited to submit designs for the preat Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. The red plaster model of his project was the focal point of last week's exhibition. It embraced a huge segment-shaped auditorium to seat 25,000 people and allow whole regiments to march across its stage, offices, libraries, and a combined auditorium and theatre to serve the All Union Congress...
Another novelty in the construction of the new portion of Adams House is the use of a rougher type of plaster than that used in the other Houses...
With the change of the administration of the Germanic Museum has come a change in policy which is greatly to be commended. Formerly the museum acdontarily collected dust. It's huge plaster casts of bronze monuments throughout Germany, casts which Kaisar Wilhelm presented to the University when he was currying favor in America, rested undisturbed. Countless architectural photographs, dull and uninteresting, lined the walls. Only people attracted by the extraordinary beauty of the building itself ever returned to the museum...
Fresco painting is an untransportable art. Frescoes are part of a wall. They are painted on wet plaster with water color paints. So that they could be moved into the gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...
...magpies nests, where anything was grist to the curator's, mill. But now, under the leadership of Dr. Kuhn, it has weighed its collection in the balance with the idea of exhibiting only what has educational value and leads to an appreciation of German art. Certain isolated plaster-casts have had to go because they were inadequate substitutes for the originals, while countless photographs have been relegated to steel files, where those who must can use them. There used to be practically no original pieces. Now the side halls, cleared and freshened with new paint and lighting, house a small...