Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next...
...Dartmouth game at Woburn, the Yale team showed two capable wings and a good scrum half, but the rest of the men were small and did not exhibit any great ability...
...opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing the lower parts...
...added up to Dada, the great antiart movement of 40 years ago. Like Johns, the Dadaists deliberately tried to strip art of all sentiment and all significance. They would exhibit a urinal as sculpture, for example, to get across the idea that a statue is no better and no worse than a urinal. Thus degraded, Dada soon grew the snaky locks of surrealism. Next year's fair-haired boy may well have his pockets full of limp watches, and may also be hailed as a pioneer...
...well has this revolution succeeded? And where does it go from here? In an ambitious effort to answer these questions, the American Federation of Arts this week opens a major exhibit in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Titled "Form Givers at Mid-Century," the show, sponsored and organized by TIME, will move on to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in June, then tour the nation. Gallerygoers at the Corcoran will see models and photographs of 66 pivotal buildings, set off by panel-sized color transparencies, which provide a sampling of the best in 20th century architecture...