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	Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under the terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The... Read more
	Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. 1902-81, American art historian, b. Detroit. Barr taught art history at several colleges and was the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. He organized more than 100 museum exhibitions and wrote a number of standard art history texts. These include ... Read more
	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art accredited institution of higher education; in New York City; coeducational; chartered and opened in 1859. Founded by Peter Cooper, it pioneered in evening engineering and art schools; day schools were added in 1900. Today it includes schools of... Read more
	Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bought from the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the instigation of Prince Albert, and collections from the... Read more
	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more
	Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with a core group of 700 art objects, many from her own collection. The museum was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries... Read more
	Paul J Sachs Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more
	Museums MUSEUMS MUSEUMS define relationships between life, community, the nation, and the world through the interpretation of objects, experience, and the environment. These institutions range from community-based museums, such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and Chinatown... Read more
	Emilio Pettoruti Pettoruti, Emilio (1892–1971). Argentine painter, born at La Plata. From 1913 to 1923 he studied and worked in Europe, taking part in the Futurist movement in Italy, and experimenting with the Cubism of Juan Gris, whom he met in Paris. After his return to Argentina in 1924 he had a great... Read more
	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented by him to the nation in 1966. Opened in 1974, it... Read more

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	"Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936".... Magazine article from: New Criterion "Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on...recounting the history of American Cubism, Cauman's catalogue essay...work hanging in Arensberg's living room--and toneless academic...out the influences of Salon Cubism from that of ...
	Discovering the many facets of Cubism Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ...Forget the old notions about Cubism as a rarefied trend confined...Beaune until Jan. 27, shows that Cubism swept across Europe. There were...in Germany and walked over to Cubism after a Czech collector living in Paris took him to Henri Kahnweiler...
	Cubism's Prague Spring;The Bloom of Czechoslovakian Architects Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...unprecedented phenomenon of Czech cubism has been forgotten for the better...among others - were to embrace cubism, the latest radical emanation...been set free in the bourgeois living room. Furniture like this was...first architects to pick up on cubism - ...
	Rivera's Early Cubism: Showing His Fun Sides Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...drawings, made while Rivera was living in France and Spain in the years...in Spain, came late to the cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges...the disorientations of true cubism. But in the process, it gains...that more hard-hitting early cubism rarely did. His ...
	'Le Torero' and "The Undefeated": Hemingway's foray into analytical cubism. Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction ...Gris, would later write "that cubism is a purely spanish conception...cubists and that the only real cubism is that of Picasso and Juan...the techniques of analytical Cubism to fiction-using Le Torero...purchased Le Torero when he was living in Key West, the ...
	THE PLANE TRUTH ABOUT CUBISM'S FOUNDING FATHER; NIGHT & DAY. Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) ...tandem with Picasso, invented cubism - working so closely, in fact...the period of high and austere cubism was a brief one - he could not...moved only slowly away from high cubism, and its characteristic flatness...Flat images are expanded into living ...
	Picasso portraits shown at National Gallery; The works ended up helping... Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) ...career."When we invented cubism we had no intention whatever of inventing cubism," he said many years later...curator of the show, noted that cubism was not Picasso's own name...divorce, Fernande had been living with Picasso since shortly...
	Cubism, the Unappreciated Art Of Office Dwelling Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...cramped quarters, then hustle off to their cubicles, eager to snuggle inside. Closet cubicle-lovers of the world, quit living a double life. Face up to your true feelings, and take courage in the old proverb: Good things do come in small packages...
	NEO-CUBISM Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...on display yesterday in front of the Palais de la Decouverte museum in Paris. The mammoth ice cube, part of the new exhibition "Iceland, a Living Earth," is expected to last for up to 10 days before completely melting. / REUTERS PHOTO
	Experiment in cubism: creative solutions from the team's contractor and... Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction ...the-art book-sorting system. Level 3: A soaring main entrance lobby--a large public gathering space called the "Living Room"--features a coffee stand, gift shop, and the fiction section. Level 4: The hallway of the cavernous multipurpose...