Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some $3,000,000 worth of masterworks by El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso-drew a record turnout of 53,031 visitors, more than the museum in its old headquarters could normally expect in a whole year...
...Gerald Kelly, 78, painter and past president of Britain's Royal Academy, is a salty soul who once sat before the microphones of the BBC and described a Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large...
...settlement with the Treasury by which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week, though the 86-year-old Dowager Duchess of Devonshire may live there for the rest of her days...
...paintings included Rembrandt's Old Man Seated, Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
...regret, however, that Houseman succumbed to the temptation of "improving" the play by cutting, although there are fewer cuts than one normally finds. A museum director does not crop a Rembrandt painting to fit the space on the wall; nor do music publishers and performers "correct" Beethoven's and Chopin's "mistakes" as they used to. We should be allowed to judge a play just as the author left it, without the benefit of the director's superior insight as to how it ought to have been written. And, of all Shakespeare's plays, Othello is the one that most...