Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Jacques Mauny, French painter and critic, whose exhibition at the De Hauke Gallery (Manhattan) has just closed, said practically the same thing: "The collections of early American art at the Brooklyn Natural History and American Indian Museums are truly formidable. Let us hope that Americans will soon liberate themselves from the dictatorship of Europe?cease to be incurable addicts of the copie d'anden. Architects and artists must some time realize the value of their aboriginal art, native flower of the American continent, and the only one which was created for its crystal-like sky, just as Gothic...
...modernists rejoiced and made merry last week. With the opening of a great exhibition at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, they had captured one of the strongest citadels of conservatism. Never before had a modernist show been permitted there, and now the works of 33 modernists were on view. They celebrated artistically, mentally, physically, at the private view the day before opening. They danced to the music of mandolins and guitars in the dignified Grand Central premises. They drank tea and other liquids. They smoked cigarets in modernist defiance of signs that read "No Smoking." Some of them ranged themselves...
...financial and social eminence appeared among the sponsors, anyone could see the handwriting on the wall: wealth is supporting radical art. Last month Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney announced plans for Manhattan's third museum of living art, to contain only U. S. works (TIME, Jan. 20), and last week it could definitely be told that, despite Mrs. Whitney's personal predilection for the traditional, here too modernists will be welcomed...
...etched plate wears out after 75 or 100 proofs have been "pulled." Last week Director Charles L. Offin of The Etchers' Guild warned the public against mechanically reproduced facsimiles now sold in drug stores for $1 each...
More significant than any corporate earnings statement, more significant than any statistics yet prepared on 1929, was a figure-redundant report issued last week by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, covering in great detail the taxable income of U. S. citizens and corporations during the prosperous year...