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...publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions of Titian, Cézanne, van Gogh, the Impressionists, Rembrandt...
Last fortnight Miss Curran and the Pennsylvania Museum's Director Fiske Kimball arranged a big exhibition of WPA art, the first time Philadelphia's Relief artists have had a decent chance to show their work under public auspices. The Philadelphia Record's Dorothy Grafly, ablest art critic in the city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation...
...music tells the listener what the protagonists are thinking about, what they intend to do, where they came from, what their destiny is. To the inexperienced operagoer, Wagner's orchestra merely sounds; but to the seasoned Wagnerite it talks. Of Der Ring des Niebelungen, cautious Manhattan Critic Lawrence Gilman recently wrote: "Not only the hugest thing that was ever attempted by the creative will; it is also, in the ultimate sense of the word, the greatest...
More than one critic has observed that that period is unusual for the quantities of mediocrity it produced. Indian maidens by waterfalls, snowy-breasted brooklets and 10?-store moonlight still testify to the infinite sentimentality of its influence. Nevertheless, the Whitney show of 81 paintings by 47 artists proved that wholesale contemners of the 19th-Century landscape have been unable to see the woods for the trees. In Colonial America, there was little demand for landscapes. Unknown journeymen painters turned out a few which, like Runaway Horse (see cut), are still as fresh as daisies...
...patrons mention that they saw the reviews in TIME and have been influenced in coming to see certain pictures which lacked both star names and noise- I, and there are probably other exhibitors who have benefited in the same way, am definitely grateful to you and to your movie critic, whose writings are not colored by blurbs but are sincere and impartial and accepted as that by the movie-going public...