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" A bare table- or wall-makes Stanley Barrows very nervous. In nearly 79 years of living, he has collected 4,000 books, 45 framed paintings and engravings, 60 pieces of porcelain, and in various sinuous positions of sniffing and leaping, a dozen small bronze whippets and greyhounds. "
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" But there was another, morbid, side to his meaningfulness. To "die at the top" for being his kind of artist was to many, I think, implicit in the work before he died. It was this bizarre implication that was so moving. We remembered Van Gogh and Rimbaud. But not it was our time, and a man some of us knew. "
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" As the first major Regionalist painting to enter the permanent collection, Thomas Hart Benton's Weighing Cottony 1939 (Fig. 1) significantly enhances the Art Gallery's ability to present a balanced view of American art in the years between the Depression and World War Two. "
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David Mannes (1866-1959) was an American violinist, educator, and activist. He was born in New York City, and studied the violin with composer and violinist John Thomas Douglass, the son of a freed slave. His musical upbringing led to the establishment of two music schools. In 1912, he helped found the Colored Music Settlement School, […]
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" Of all Schenker’s pupils and disciples, none was as important for the dissemination of his teachings as Hans Weisse. Weisse seems to be at the forefront of every initiative to promote his teacher’s work, whether as a private tutor, a public lecturer, or an ambassador of music theory. "
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" "New York and the Colored People" was the general topic tor discussion yesterday at the March conference on the evils of pauperism held in the assembly hall of the United Charities Building, 106 East Twenty-second Street. Introduced only by his non-committal subject on the programme, "My Colored Violin Teacher," David Mannes told the story of his first legitimate musical instruction, of his first direction on the right path of musical study, and of how, years later, he tried to pay his debt by inaugurating the Musical School Settlement for Negroes, now advancing through its first season with 150 pupils. "
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" I have spent about forty years of my life at music, most of that time trying to find out what music can do for children; puzzling through the years; realizing what music has done for me; seeing how many people, equipped technically, having every opportunity , still come very far from reaching the true import of the whole matter! "
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" Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is considered by many to be the "philosopher of the twentieth century." He came to exemplify a certain form of public intellectual, what Bourdieu critically calls a "total intellectual," by virtually dominating French intellectual life (literature, philosophy, culture) during the early post-World War II period. "
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" According to Mr. Mocsanyi the show is the first in the United States to survey the "continuous flow" of French satire from the beginning of the 17th century to World War 1. "
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" Affiliated with the New School, the Vera List Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and continues to commission, award, and cooperate with artists and organizations that work at the intersection of art and politics. "