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Inside the museum, pale maple floors, terra-cotta tile and fiber matting create a neutral background for the displays. What saves it from being merely one more ocean of architectural white space is a soaring four-story atrium- lobby, dominated by a magnificent oval staircase that leads to the exhibit levels. "What we wanted," says Smith, "was a simple environment that would be a good backdrop for our exhibits...
...French Heartthrob Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great-granddad's newly found terra-cotta bas-relief Woman with Tambourine HI. It is the final sculpture he is known to have done before his death in 1919. Renoir, who does not want to emulate the half-dressed woman posing in the bronzes, limits her movie roles to those that do not call for nudity...
...Since then, the museum has been expanded considerably, most notably by the Asmat carvings collected by Nelson's son Michael before he was lost off the coast of New Guinea in 1961. This week it puts on view 700 charming Mexican folk toys and figurines, festival masks and terra-cotta ewers that reflect Rockefeller's continuing interest and many southward junkets. The exhibit's gaiety derives in part, as Rockefeller notes in the catalogue's introduction, from the fact that Mexican folk art is "an ongoing tradition, bound up with everyday life and festivals, producing...
...consortium of oil companies (Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil and Shell) went to work hauling in rock and sand fill to build four ten-acre islands. Palm trees as tall as 60 feet were transplanted from Santa Barbara and San Diego, and architects were put to work sketching terra-cotta and steel shells for the oil rigs, designed to look like handsome balconied apartment buildings and soundproofed to keep the drilling noise from echoing across...
...arranging the show, he tried "to pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...