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...long been one of the most engaging personalities of the U.S. art world. One New Year's Eve, with Artist Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop scenes which got him a name as one of the best U.S. realists...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...
Beethoven: Missa Solemmis (Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony, with Soprano Jeannette Vreeland, Contralto Anna Kaskas, Tenor John Priebe, Basso Norman Cordon, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society; Victor; 24 sides; two volumes; $13). Beethoven, a great-souled humanitarian rather than a churchgoer, wrote his Solemn Mass for the installation of an archduke as an archbishop (he finished it three years too late). One of the greatest and most complicated of choral works it receives here a great recording-assembled from three different concert performances in Boston...
...muttered, groaned, sprinkled corn pollen over the figures they had painted. Then they stood to one side and chanted. It was not funny. It was moving. Still chanting, Charley carefully shuffled over the design, destroying it section by section. When the sand painting was obliterated, Charley Turquoise pronounced a solemn blessing on all those present, prayed that he and the other Navajos would get safely home again. The crowd of onlookers did not understand Charley Turquoise's medicine, but they felt it. When the chants and the shuffling and the invocations were finished, some of them had tears...
Germany's most profitable export in 1940 was the New Order. In London last week solemn, 38-year-old Richard Austen Butler, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told Britain's House of Commons what it cost five European nations annually to feed and house Adolf Hitler's armies of occupation. The figures came from published reports of the German Government, except in the case of The Netherlands, where, said Britain's Butler, they must be treated with reserve. The bill...