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...before their journey to Colorado Springs. Perhaps he could have had the team invited to Martha Cook to learn the fine art of balancing a tea cup. Their training should also have included a session with Prof. Eisenberg of the Fine Arts Department, so that they would know a Rembrandt from a Goys...
...afternoon she covered 44 galleries, six centuries of paintings and a formal tea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pausing to comment on a favorite Renoir or Rembrandt, and startling the sketching classes. That evening she went to see The Pajama Game. The show, she explained, was her own choice; for weeks she had listened to Princess Margaret's records of Hey There and Hernando's Hideaway, until the tunes "buzzed" in her ears. During the intermission she sipped champagne backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from...
Downright Men. But if the Dutch artists were wonderfully downright about their everyday world, they reflected a Dutch Protestant reluctance to accept sacred subjects and they avoided the upsetting, never-distant world of war and human suffering. Only Rembrandt had the courage to take all human life, spiritual as well as material, for his province. Rembrandt overshadowed last week's exhibition, and also dominated its pendant show of Dutch prints and drawings. Rembrandt's etching Faust (above) asserts a force of imagination foreign to his environment. With such pictures, Rembrandt outstripped even the glorious age into which...
Game of Skittles. Instead of outstripping his time like Rembrandt, or capturing it like De Hooch, Jan Vermeer distilled it. Vermeer's pictures are even cooler, steadier and more meticulous than the customers called for. As Curator Theodore Rousseau remarks in the exhibition catalogue, almost everything Vermeer painted has a "quality of classical repose and silence. It remains one of the inexplicable puzzles in the history of taste that [Vermeer's pictures] have been confused with works by other artists, and that the identity of this painter, who to us seems different from all others, should have been...
...tricky first bars of Weber's Der Freischiitz overture, the French horns were as rich as a Rembrandt painting, and the big string section gave off an aura as warm as the old rose of the eleven cellos. The Concertgebouw made less noise than the best U.S. orchestras, and its climaxes were never ear-piercing. Rather, it seemed to inhale smoothly, reach its peaks easily, then relax with a sigh instead of an exhausted gasp...