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The article looks on the efforts of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (MCC) in New York City to highlight the universal role of artists and craftsmen by featuring theme-oriented exhibitions. Operated by the American Craftsmen's Coincil (ACC) and led by museum director Paul J. Smith, MCC is promoting all types of American crafts. Some of exhibitions that will be featured at MCC are ""Feel It" and Tools - The Stone to the Computer."

The article provides information on Roy Lindstrom, art director and illustrator for the magazine "High Fidelity" and free-lance designer for Vintage Paper Backs and Vanguard. Lindstrom uses different media, including oil and polymer, and also does woodcuts and photography. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the American School of Design and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, the Peggy Best Gallery and the Albany Institute of History and Art, among others.

The article offers information on the show entitled "Eight Contemporary Artists," assembled by curator Jennifer Licht, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Most of the artists are below 40 years of age and work in the area where conceptual art lays. The more fulfilling groups of work are by Dorothea Rockburne, Jan Dibbets and Brice Marden. Other artists include Italian Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren and the Australian Robert Hunter.

The article discusses developments in the field of art. Artist Doug Anderson created the two-color drawing of the Signs of the Zodiac using a new method. Miami, Florida-based A. E. Holton has commissioned Lumen Winter to create a replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper. Metropolitan Museum of Art consultant Roland McKinney has used paper models in arranging an American Art exhibition at the museum in New York City.

The article presents a calendar of art exhibitions in New York City in April 1974. The landscape paintings of Richard Ahntholz will be exhibited on April 13. The exhibition of Horst Antes' paintings and works on paper of imaginary figures will be held on April 6. On the other hand, the paintings and pastels of figures and landscapes of William Beckman will be displayed on April 27.

The article focuses on Polia Pillin's painting on clay. According to Pillin, the medium she employs to decorate her paintings and other pottery is engobe, a French word which refers to the mixture of clay and water with a consistency that is like a cream. She makes color clays by adding metal oxides to white slip. Much of her works in ceramics include plates, ashtrays and bowls. As of March 1, 1955, her work can be seen at The Willow in New York.

The article focuses on the one-man exhibition of watercolor paintings by Adolph Treidler which was held at the Society of Illustrators' gallery in New York in mid-July 1969 and announces the "Artists for Hope" sale and exhibition to be held on October 2-13, 1969 at Midtown Plaza Mall in New York City.

The article discusses several places for new artists to demonstrate their art works. It describes New York as a city where several art galleries can be found and the founding of the Art Dealers' Association of America by 14 uptown Madison Avenue galleries which launched a New Talent Festival. The restoration of the Museum of Modern Art of New Talent exhibitions is also mentioned which showcase talents of unknown artists as well as the Whitney Museum's biennial display of American arts.

The article discusses the role of Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor on the success of the museum in New York City. Taylor's showmanship led to an increase in the number of visitors, with 2,263,336 people going to the museum in 1951. To attract more people, the museum holds special exhibitions such as the "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan."

The article discusses some of the paintings and sculptures of Maurice Sterne to be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The statue of the girl sitting in Worcester monument or the Bomb Thrower from the Metropolitan is carved from a block of Greek marble founder in the Tiber. The large canvas of "American in Anticoli," is the masterpiece of the exhibition.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic news from the world. Information on the Hessian Day Rally; Profiles Justice Louis D. Brandeis; Announcements by Spanish Premier Juan Negrin and General Jose Miaja that the Spanish republic will fight on; Announcement of a national Crusade for God in Government by the Right Reverend Joseph Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University of America; Controversy over the audit reports of Price Waterhouse and Co.; Criticism of Herbert Hoover, the Republican Party headline speaker for election campaign of 1940 and ex-President of the U.S.; Information on the Japanese attacks on the Soviet Union; Speculation on the supply of Russian oil to Italy and Germany; Controversy on the appointment of the federal court judges in the U.S.; Information on the session of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor; Results of the 1936 survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that the consumers cooperation has increased; Message of U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the need for initiating at once an extra Works Progress Administration appropriation for $150,000,000; Report that last week 4,000 women lined up to apply for just twelve jobs in the laboratories of the New York Health Department; Information on the exhibition of the paintings of painter Robert Hallowell at the Paul Reinhardt Galleries in the New York City, beginning February 20, 1939; Worry of Switzerland of German dictator Adolf Hitler's conception of neutrality; Permission given to German Jews to earn a living in Germany; Introduction of a legislation to permit the entry of 20,000 German refugees children fourteen years old or younger into the U.S. during this year and 1940 by Senator Robert F. Wagner; Information on the first showings of the semi-official documentary film "Spain Fights On," in the New York City; Charges of the Dean of Columbia Teachers' College that the Communists paid young people $3 a day to pose as students at Columbia and agitate.

The article offers information on the Business Men's Art Club of New York Exhibit held during the New York World's Fair in June and July 1940 at the International Business Machines (IBM) headquarters.

Focuses on art critics John Perreault and Robert Pincus-Witten. Professional backgrounds of Perreault and Pincus-Witten; Views of Perreault on the art exhibition titled "The Village Voice," in New York; Techniques of art criticism used by Pincus-Witten.

Reviews the exhibition "300 Years of American Painting," at the Metropolitan Museum in New York state.

Examines the impact of art museums on the business of art dealers. Description of an exhibition by two Austrian artists at the Guggenheim and an optical art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Attitude of the Modern museum toward its featured exhibitions; Factors considered by the Guggenheim in choosing art works to be displayed; Contributions of art museums to the profits of art dealers.

Reviews the art exhibition "American Geometric Abstraction of the 1930s," organized by Manhattan, New York City-based Virginia Zabriskie Gallery.

Reviews the fifth anniversary exhibition of painter and sculpture Pablo Ruiz Picasso held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and directed by Alfred Barr.

The article features artist Richard Peter Hoffman and his designs that were exhibited at the Harry Salpeter Gallery in New York including "Distelfink," "Amish School Girl," and "Apple Butter."

The article discusses the first year anniversary of "The Amateur Artist," its role of being the voice and champion of the people and other items of interest to the amateur artists. It cites the plan of the Civil Service Employees Association of New York State to hold an art show limited to civil servants and/or their wives or husbands at the Albany Institute of History and Art in New York. Also noted is the failure to give emphasis on the selection, hanging and judging of art work at fairs and exhibitions.

This section offers news briefs concerning American art and artists. The Third Exhibition of Art and Artists Along the Mississippi will take place at the Municipal Gallery in Davenport, Iowa from March 18 to May 28, 1950. The print club called The Western New York Printmakers was formed at the Albright Art School in Buffalo, New York on February 8, 1950. A new wing was officially opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art on March 31, 1950 for children's educational activities.

The article discusses the art and career of sculpture artist Elaine Rapp. Rapp reportedly began her art training after her marriage but was not sure what field she wanted to pursue. In January 1968, Rapp was able to hold her first one-man show at the Bodley Gallery in New York. The author shares that Rapp's sculptures are cut stones that exude a warm and personal quality.

The article focuses on artist Everett Warner's tempera painting "Steel, Steam and Smoke" exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. It provides images of the painting's line analysis and abstract elements including the abstractions of line, the spatial relationships, the tone, and the color. It also features the artist's casual sketches.

Focuses on the artistic collections in several museums of New York as of September 07, 1974. Brief information several art exhibitions held in the museum; Features of various sculptures made by Constantin Brancusi, present at the Whitney Museum.

Focuses on the exhibition of the art of the South Seas held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Technique adopted by the Museum to display this ancestral art; Comparison of Etruscan sculptures and the monumental mask from New Britain; Artists who have confronted the mystery of art.

Focuses on the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, displaying engravings and etchings. Display of original wood cuts, chiaroscuro prints and other forms of engraving, reflecting the art of Venetian painter Titian; Difference between Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's original work of art and the copy of his picture; Depiction of Counter-Reformation in Baroque art paintings displayed in the exhibition.

The youngest of New York's art museums has just made its bow to the public. The Museum of Modern Art, the creation of a group of prominent collectors and amateurs, has opened its doors in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street. Just as the great Armory show of 1913 was the opening gun in the long, bitter struggle for modern art in this country, so the foundation of the new museum marks the final apotheosis of modernism and its acceptance by respectable society. As its name indicates, the new institution is to be devoted primarily to the work of living artists and their immediate predecessors. Wisely enough, its organizers plan to go slowly in the beginning and restrict its activities for the first two years to loan exhibitions; after that, if all goes well, the museum will begin to form a permanent collection.

Presents information about the new building of Museum of Modern Art in New York City named as Whitney. Description of the architectural aspects of the building of the museum; Information about several items exhibited at the museum; Description of various sculptures showcased at the museum; Comparison of the building of the museum with that of the Phillips Gallery in Washington.

Soho, the area of New York City South of Houston Street, has a new art building at 429 West Broadway. There are four galleries stacked up the way studios are on the floors of neighboring buildings— Leo Castelli, Andre Emmerich, Sonnabend and John Weber. The first commercial gallery in the area the Park Place Gallery. At 420 West Broadway, the opening exhibitions show, on a larger scale, what the galleries offer uptown. Emmerich has a, group of abstract paintings by gallery artists, hung among vistas and projecting walls to make them look as if they were already in the executive suite.

The large exhibition of artist Paul Cezanne at the Wildenstein Galleries contains many paintings never shown before in New York City. The exhibition is for the benefit of the National Organization for Mentally Ill Children. The significance of Cezanne is something that the critics keep trying to explain: they repeat each other and their explanations overlap and insist, in the same way that Cezanne insisted on his contours. His contemporaries who rejected him were repelled by his clumsiness. Cezanne insisted on the reality of things, which the impressionists denied insofar as for them there existed only one sensation.

Reviews the exhibition "Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The author provides her commentary on various art-related events and trends. She notes the stirring of provocative thinking during the exhibition of early Christian and Byzantine art held at the Baltimore Museum of Art to commemorate the Bicentennial anniversary of Princeton University. She offers a retrospective on the life and contribution of the late African-American painter Horace Pippin, and mentions the opening of the Pepsi-Cola Opportunity Art Gallery on November 1, 1947 in New York City.

Focuses on various art exhibitions in New York City. Theme of paintings designed by European artist Karl Hagendern; Material used by painter William Perehudoff in his paintings; Style of painter Archie Peltier.

The article focuses on the grab-bag art show hosted by the New York Artists Equity Association to raise money for their building fund, held a the Whitney Museum in June 1951. The buyers of the show include Fleur Cowles of "Look" magazine, who got abstractions by Hans Hoffmann, and novelist Kathleen Winsor, who got a landscape. The organization had raised 52,000 dollars from the show.

The article provides information about the 1931 Industrial Art Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The article reports on various art works displayed by several artists including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jacques Kaplan, and Claes Oldenburg in art galleries in New York. It notes that Pistoletto has displayed blown-up and painted photographs of men and women at the Kornblee Gallery while Kaplan has exhibited art show done in fur at the Waddell Gallery. It notes that Oldenburg has displayed arts including canvas loaf of raisin bread, sketches, and models at the Sidney Janis Gallery.