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Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet...
...representative of the people." There is more than merely a simple exposition of peculiar traits indigenous to Maine in his poems. He who would classify Coffin as a provincialist, limited in scope to the portrayal of a single group of individuals, might as well judge the significance of a sculptor's work by the quality of clay be uses...
...Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream-of-the-crop exhibition of "Art in Our Time" paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, industrial art, and a historical cycle of movies from...
...waiting, gentlemen ushers, pages of honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased the number of the King's retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel for his soul, some 40 medical specialists for his body...
...object in Sculptor was found to be 290,000 light years distant, and to have a diameter of 6,500 light years. The Fornax cluster is further away and a little larger, but belongs in the same class...