Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Transported by the U.S. Navy, the exhibit opened two months ago at the University of Indiana, which has a thriving teacher and student exchange program with Thailand. When it leaves the Met in February, the show will go on to Boston, Toledo, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu in the U.S. before getting back home...
Because of Thailand's humid climate, few paintings have survived, but the sculpture is more than sufficient to show the paradoxical versatility of Thailand's artists. The bronze Bodhisattva (see color) is a masterpiece of intricate workmanship; the lithe little dancing figure, who was meant both to protect and entertain Buddha, bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands...
...stock during the first five hours of the University of Chicago Renaissance Society exhibit (its title: "Contemporary Art for Young Collectors"), bought $22,000 worth of art from the St. Louis City Art Museum. Manhattan's Galerie Felix Vercel summed up the nationwide trend by advertising a show of "Big Names in Small Sizes." The names were indeed big - Pissaro and Utrillo - and the pastels were indeed small; the prices were...
Prints - especially in signed, limited editions - were one answer to the poor man's status search. Signed color lithographs by Dubuffet and Braque sold for $45 and $75 at the University of Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
...error is about 120,000 people. One trouble is that when the husband is laid off, the wife and often a son or daughter start searching for work to help out. Result: where only one has actually lost his job, three are registered as unemployed. Nonetheless, the statistics do show the national trend-and the trend is not encouraging...