Word: rubins
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They fill the building's three floors, displacing MOMA's permanent collection. "I felt that only with the whole museum could we have an exhibition worthy of Picasso's oeuvre," explains William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture. "I don't think there is any other artist whose work could sustain such an exhibition...
...retrospective was put together by Rubin and Dominique Bozo, curator-in-charge of the future Musée Picasso in Paris. The effort could have succeeded only at this moment. By now the fights over Picasso's estate between his heirs and the French government?which have kept a score of lawyers fat, tired and happy since the old man died without leaving a will?have been resolved, yet the final disposition of his work has not been locked into an institutional frame. When the Musée Picasso, which received the cream of the work from Picasso's own estate, opens...
...short, no exhibition like this can ever be mounted again. Bozo's main work with the Musée Picasso is still before him. For Rubin, the MOMA show is the climax of a career; to have brought off, within three years, two exhibitions at such a level (the other being his Cézanne show in 1977) is in some measure to have altered the history of curatorship itself. Rubin, the Iron Chancellor of MOMA, has set new standards of detail and historical cogency within the museum, and the Picasso exhibit and its admirable catalogue reflect them at every point...
Although Badini says he didn't enter the department expecting a more clinical bent, he adds he has been disappointed in many of the department's courses. "A lot of the middle-level courses overlapped the introductory courses," he says. Lee C. Rubin '81, a concentrator, echoes this complaint. "The redundancy of the courses surprised me," she says, adding. "The basic concepts keep popping up in advanced courses, so that the surprise and wonder of each new course is minimized." Badini, a member of the department's Committee on Undergraduate Instruction, says the committee is presently working on reorganizing courses...
...dissatisfaction that people feel in the department has to do with the nature of psychology," Rubin explains. "It's not an exact science. Psychology is inherently different from other fields because people often enter because of personal reasons. A process of introspection has led them to feel that they have a knack for Psychology...