Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windup press conference last week in Moscow, Harriman gave out next to nothing of his visit with Khrushchev. Instead, he defended, with practiced diplomatic finesses, the integrity of the U.S. exhibit in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. "We would be stupid to present anything except for what it is represented to be." Then, only slightly chastened by Communist China's polite refusal to grant him a visa, Reporter Harriman headed for Paris -where all good foreign correspondents go for rest and rehabilitation-before undertaking his next journalistic assignment : a textpiece for LIFE Magazine...
This year, however, the Festival directors decided to have the jury draw up a list of specific painters, each of whom would then be invited to show three paintings. Invitations thus went out to 51 artists. Of these, 22 protested the non-democratic nature of the exhibit by refusing to participate...
Sculpture Exhibit...
...with the oils, the sculpture exhibit was invitational rather than competitive. Here the quality was generally high. Most of the sculptors had two works apiece. I particularly admired Kahlil Gibran's "Pieta," Peter Grippe's "King Minos Number 2," Liliam Saarinen's "Portrait of an Author" (whom I took to be Edwin O'Connor, author of the novel The Last Hurrah), and the items by Henry Kreis and Robert Lamb. Donald Stoltenberg's so-so "Shipyard Cranes" won the $500 Invitational Award for Sculpture or Painting; and Gilbert Franklin's appealing "Beach Figure" captured the Festival's $1000 Grand Prize...
...This exhibit, however, did contain a lot of junk. For example, the fields of scratches that constituted Robert Partin's "Offing" and "In the Rain" surely did not merit showing. Nor did William Tokeshi's field of dashes; Tokeshi labeled it "No Title," and small wonder. Prizes of $250 went to four works, none of which was outstanding...