Word: tates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First News. One day last week Sir John Rothenstein, director of London's government-owned Tate Gallery, got a telephone call from an Irish reporter who was checking an anonymous tip. Had Sir John heard that a picture was missing from the Tate's walls? "When?" he asked...
...parcel with words, "It's the Jour d'Eté, and it's hot." An outfit called the Irish National Students Council boasted that two of its members had taken the picture. The night before, two young Irishmen got up on the roof of the Tate Gallery, but police had spotted them and set dogs on them. So next day the young vandals simply walked in, took down the picture wrapped it up and walked out. "We shall present it to the Municipal Gallery soon," they added...
...making hers a lost-and-found generation novel. In the pages of The Malefactors, the mourning after the big Paris binge becomes a kind of purgatory on the road to religious serenity. In keeping with its semi-autobiographic overtones (Author Gordon and her poet-critic-novelist husband, Alien Tate, are recent Roman Catholic converts), this book is one of those Mary McCarthy-like exercises in intellectual cattiness in which one claws one's literary coterie in public...
Londoners, who have long since succumbed to U.S. jazz, slang, movies and musical comedies, gave a less hospitable reception last week to modern U.S. art. On view at London's Tate Gallery were 209 paintings, sculptures and prints selected by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art as a sequel to its big Paris show (TIME, April 18). London critics in general frankly admitted that they found the experience "disquieting" and even "nightmarish." Decided the London Observer: "Most of these artists seem to reflect the character of a continent at once inquiring, energetic, assertive, and ill at ease...
...late, eccentric Publisher (Physical Culture, Liberty) Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, Oct. 24), the present boss of the $5,000,000 Macfadden Foundation (set up by Macfadden in 1931) claimed that there is much astew about nothing. Noting an $18,000 federal claim for back taxes on Macfadden's es tate, Foundation President Edward Bodin stated the sad tidings: "He was actually broke, as he claimed, before he died. Judging by investigations so far, it is unlikely that the estate of Bernarr Macfadden will be able to meet the burial costs and legal expenses...