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From such a splendid beginning, the British royal collection came to fill six castles and grow into the most valuable private collection in the world. From its 50 Canalettos to its 200 Da Vinci draw ings, the crown's choice is still an unnationalized treasure. The bulk, of which some 172 works are now on public view in Buckingham Palace's Queen's Gallery, bespeaks, above all, the influence of the Italian Renaissance...
...longer believed to be quite so innocent or so immature. Certainly Klee was fascinated with children. While his wife Lily earned the family living as a piano teacher, he meticulously jotted down a calendar of his baby son's growth. Typical entry: "July 8. Says: Dayi-da; screams: day-dayi-da. This is the way he demands his breakfast in the morning." Klee's art, with its dah-dits and dayi-dahs, became a Morse code of human thoughts...
...Holiday is bound to be controversial. Ever since Leonardo da Vinci proposed one in 1500, men have been designing vehicles with front wheels that provide the traction or driving power, rear wheels that merely go along .for the ride. Today, more than a dozen small European cars have front wheel drive, and both Renault and Peugeot announced last week that they would market new models in 1965. But Detroit has always been wary, discouraged by the performance and cost of experimental models. The Holiday is thus a bold G.M. step into an area where rival U.S. automakers and even other...
Marc Blitzstein's musical The Cradle Will Rock after all these years has been equaled only by Carousel, The Golden Apple, West Side Story and perhaps one or two others. It is enjoying a buoyant resurrection (at Theatre Four) under the direction of Howard Da Silva, who was in the original production and has been associated with every one of its revivals since. As on that notorious and scandalous opening night in 1938, only a piano is used. No orchestra is really needed; the work's that good. And if you haven't seen Tom Jones' and Harvey Schmidt...
...pages. Braziller. $20. At that crucial intersection of art history, where the High Renaissance collapsed and reshaped itself into the Baroque, stands that accomplished but today little-valued style called "Mannerism." Painters like Mabuse, Cranach, Caravaggio, da Pontormo, and a hundred others across Europe were luxuriating in the mastery of technique. Their work was energetic, inventive, sensual, and edged with a fascination for the grotesque...