Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1906 the nationally owned Smithsonian Institution has had a Gallery of Art, but it is wedged into the massive, domed Natural History Building, the Institution's principal monument. Function of the new gallery is primarily to house and exhibit art owned by the Government, including presumably the immense quantities lately accumulated by the Treasury and the Federal Art Project...
...last detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used "in the art and science of mechanics'"; 6) a retrospective show of paintings by burly, grey-haired Joseph Stella, one of the first and most gifted "modern...
...gallery; most of it by a group of oldsters with Broadway experience. Never publicity-shy, Dali, who recently broke one of Bonwit Teller's Fifth Avenue show windows because Bonwit Teller tampered with his display, is at present berating the Fair because it would not let him exhibit, outside his nuthouse, a woman with the head of a fish. Merrily upping the publicity, Dali's Dream of Venus has sent out a long press release headed: "Is Dali Insane...
...Best foreign exhibit-obviously designed to win U. S. friends-is the Japanese pavilion. An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste...
Mother's Boy. A stoutish, purse-mouthed man who looks out of shining spectacles with an amiably deliberate expression, Glenn Martin is exhibit A1 of what a human being can do by channeling all his time and talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time...