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George M. Shuster, President of Hunter College, has volunteered to assist the committee in relations with UNESCO. Alfred Kazin, well-known author, Professor Meyer Shapiro of Columbia University, Professor G. A. Borgese of the University of Chicago, and Garret Mattingly, director of the department of Social Philosophy at Cooper Union, are also participating in the work...
...universal language-at least in theory. To prove it, UNESCO borrowed some 900 contemporary paintings from 30 countries, hung them, in Paris' marble Museum of Modern Art. UNESCO's delegates had already departed when the International Show finally closed its doors last week. It had been perhaps the most comprehensive exhibition of its kind ever assembled, big enough to turn up a number of surprises...
...UNESCO's standouts were a few far-corner exceptions to the French rule of modern art. Among them...
...unknown Nigerian who painted an insanely gay parade on a wall at Umuahia about 1935. UNESCO director-general Julian Huxley had seen it there, contributed his photographs of the mural to the show...
Last week Grierson was in Paris speaking for British culture at UNESCO meetings. He was also organizing a new U.S.British-Canadian company called The World Today, Inc., which plans to make 26 "international" fact films a year. Without much prospect of getting any fresh movie criticism out of such a busy executive, Grierson fans were poring over a collection of his old, still-fresh work recently published in England as Grierson on Documentary, edited by Forsyth Hardy (Collins, 16s.). When the book comes out in the U.S. next spring, it rates a more apt title. Actually, the collection is Grierson...