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Pittsburgh's Carnegie International is one of the three great biennial shows (with Venice's and Sao Paulo's) that survey and measure contemporary art from all over the world. For the 39th Carnegie, which opened last week, the museum's new director, Gordon Washburn, chose 305 paintings from 24 nations. They make a generally lively show, but one that belies...
Eisenhower's Working Staff: includes Arthur Vandenberg, executive assistant; James Hagerty, press secretary; Abbott Washburn, correspondence secretary...
...Director Washburn, 46, seemed to have most of the 2.000 opening-night visitors on his side. Said one: "It's certainly nice to see something that you don't have to stand on your head to figure...
...frescoes to Cezanne. Gallerygoers could pick out the contrasts for themselves from clear, strong Pietas to a frowzy Toulouse-Lautrec chorus girl kicking up her heels in a smoky turn-of-the-century nightclub. First & last, the show was full of French vitality-and reassuringly unmodern. With mild understatement Washburn says, "People in general are pleased to see something they can understand...
...Washburn had thought of something else: half a dozen wheelchairs for the footsore. Said he: "I see no reason why a person who wants to spend a couple of hours or so shouldn't be comfortable...