The Artist As Adversary exhibition critique at MoMA
John Canaday surveys MoMA’s summer show The Artist As Adversary with 140 artists from 21 countries. He praises some works like Picasso Guernica and Blume Eternal City while deeming most social protest art flaccid and overreaching. He notes Marisol Lyndon Johnson and Botero as notable yet not top tier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Museum of Modern Art
Callot
Goya
Gaya
Ben Shahn
Robert Motherwell
Mark Tobey
Guernica
Peter Blume
Mussolini
Italy
Blume
Marisol
Lyndon Johnson
Fernando Botero
Lindbergh Receives Rare Philippine Monkey-Eating Eagle
Threatened aviator Charles Lindbergh admires a 16 month old captive bred monkey-eating eagle in Davao City Philippines. The bird is to be trained for survival in the wild to aid the vanishing species which counts fewer than 50 individuals remaining, all in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lindbergh
Davao City
Philippines
Columbus Reaches North American Mainland in 1502
Christopher Columbus makes landfall in Honduras during his fourth voyage to the New World in 1502 marking the first time he stands on the North American mainland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
Honduras
New World
Writing Emphasized Fear and Loneliness of Soldiers
Ernie Pyle, famed American World War II journalist, helped bridge the gap between front line troops and the home front with his vivid accounts of fear and loneliness. He covered major campaigns before his death from enemy action in April 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
The
World Almanac
Laker Proposes $78 Transatlantic Skytrain Flights
Fred Laker of Laker Airways seeks a daily transatlantic shuttle between New York and London using a Boeing 707. Fares would start at $78 one way in winter, with $90 in summer and meals extra, subject to approval from the British licensing board amid expected opposition from BOAC and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
API
Fred Laker
Laker
Laker Airways
New York
British Air Transport Licensing Board
British Overseas Airways Corp
BOAC
North Atlantic
United States
Chicago Burns One Percent Of Million Tons Coal For Heat
Chicago annually consumes about 1% of a million tons of coal for heating and about six million tons for electricity generation.
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Chicago
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Art of the Times
By John Canaday
New York Times Service
Picasso
Doorbuster
JR. Boys
TOY Department
Teeter
Our
Dolly
Younson
NSEC
Mens Department
Delicatessen
16Th Ave. S.W
Men’s Department
Party Goods Department
NSU
Collins Road
N.E
Atlantic
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