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...doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips, and, holding it out, beckoned to me to come and drink. I walked over and took the bottle...
Fragile Mats. It begins, chronologically, with the 60-ft. spread of the 17-scene Apocalypse from the Château d'Angers, which is the greatest surviving tapestry of the 14th century-and has never been lent to a museum, in or out of France, before. Treasure succeeds treasure: the elegant 15th century Winged Stags from Rouen, the crowded jigsaw scenes from the Trojan War, and-as a bonus-the two most famous allegorical cycles in all 15th century tapestry, here exhibited together for the first time: the Lady with the Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris...
...rarity among experts of any type?lent heavy weight to the professionalism of their report...
...current show at Manhattan's Asia House is, in effect, a tribute to Cleveland and its director, the eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from Cleveland's collection and dating from the 10th century, when the colored paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung...
...recordings sitting in a warehouse in Queens, N.Y. Unattended, it would seem. When it came time last year to assemble the Rachmaninoff anthology, many of the molds were found to be corroded, misfiled or lost. Of the material in the new issue, fully 80% was dubbed from original records lent to RCA by private collectors. What a triumph for buffdom. What an embarrassment for a mature record company...