Word: museums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within 24 hours of Lloyd's declaration, which had been foreshadowed by the signing of a financial agreement in Cairo earlier this year, an irritating little incident rubbed open old wounds. Cairo's newspaper Al Ahram blandly reported that a museum would be made out of the Port Said tenement in which Egyptian "resistance" men scored a triumph of sorts over a 20-year-old British officer after the 1956 Suez ceasefire. Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse of the West Yorkshire Regiment, dragged away from his Land Rover, was kept tied up in the tenement for three days, then left...
Warned by the Better Business Bureau, police forwarded photos of two Lass "Picassos" to Picasso himself, and the master labeled both fakes. Museum experts declared the older pictures largely student efforts, with signatures clumsily painted in. The Lasses stood firm under fire, protesting that an international art cartel was out to get them. But the brothers' own art tastes seemed confused. "Picasso," said Mark Lass, "is a mere cartoonist." But when he was asked how much he would take for one of his "Picassos," he answered: "I would not sell under half a million dollars. I would destroy instead...
Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors, thus placing the coffee sippers within a napping tent of a picture. "How could a person paint that happy and be Dutch?" wondered an admiring American. The next year Appel left Holland. Now, married to a Dutch model, sought after by collectors, he prospers mightily in Paris, has been accepted as an officer in good standing in the hierarchy of international expressionism. His work hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...
...Brundage is increasingly concerned over the future of his collection, has offered it to San Francisco's M. H. de Young Museum. Last week city officials were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental wing, designed to meet Brundage's specifications, and 2) a Brundage-approved curator and staff for the collection. If the price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty...