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Sung in a small Mexico City gallery last week, this serenade was the climax of a long and happy evening for the frail, dark-eyed woman lying there in a great four-poster bed. She was Frida Kahlo, invalid wife of Muralist Diego Rivera and Mexico's best woman painter (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938). For her first public show in Mexico, 200 friends, fellow artists and critics had turned out to sing, sip Scotch, and applaud her delicate surrealistic pictures...
Dada was not all meaningless. It developed bold new techniques of poster art, laid some obvious groundwork for surrealism. But inevitably the movement was a victim of its own excesses. During the middle '20s, Dada suddenly died out and surrealism took its place...
...want to fill a concert hall," wrote Furtwängler, who does most of his conducting in Germany nowadays, "it is more than ever the works of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven that you must play. A work by Debussy sends the box-office receipts down, and ... a poster which displays nothing but the names of living composers is a sure promise of an empty concert hall . . . There must be a reason...
...huge poster in Dresden's Unity Square last week was bright red with a blaring message: WE WELCOME THE FIRST SOCIALIST ART EXHIBIT. Inside an immense gallery, East Germany's Communists had set up their biggest art show since the war: 599 paintings and sculptures by artists from both sides of the Red frontier. As art, the exhibit was hardly worth a second glance, but it did serve to give the West a rare and fascinating look at what happens to artists under Moscow tutelage...
...when Joseph Stalin was busily purging his Old Bolshevik pals and grinding out propaganda that they were traitors who deserved to be shot. One sharp-eyed Times reader, Editor, Author and ex-Communist Max Eastman, who reads Russian, spotted something the Times editors had missed on a propaganda poster raised above the crowd. Wrote Eastman to the Times: the Salisbury story gave "the impression of an entire nation orphaned and in deep mourning. Perhaps it would help toward an understanding of the deeper state of mind of that nation if you would translate the Russian word so plainly visible . . . above...