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Last week I had two good views of the Royal Family without the aid of field glasses. The first was at the Duke of Northumberland's wedding in Westminster Abbey. The second was at the Tate Gallery (TIME, June 24), where I spent the better part of an hour and a half cutting around corners to intercept the royal entourage in their meanderings...
...Tate Gallery, the King and Queen appeared alone to open an exhibit of U.S. art. Instinctively my attention was first attracted to the Queen. She was not beautiful, and she was not wearing a spectacular getup. It is just that she is the real star of the team...
...littlest magazines, Horizon, has kept going in London through all the blitzes since 1940, elegantly edited by Cyril Connolly; among its contributors "blast" is too thoroughly understood as a technical term to be wished on anyone. In the U.S., two old Fugitive poets, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, are editing the Kenyan Review and the Sewanee Review, respectively and passably, each at a college. And Uncle Alfred is still, indefinably, at large...
London's war-scarred Tate Gallery brimmed last week with the sweet & sour cream of U.S. art: 240 paintings by everyone from the razor-sharp 18th Century Portraitist John Singleton Copley to his blunt-edged fellow Bostonian, bitter, 31-year-old ex-G.I. Jack Levine...
Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...