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The article looks into the study and teaching of fine arts and the avant-garde innovation in France during the late 19th century. It states that the relationship between late 19th-century French art instruction and avant-garde was prompted by the political and economic policies launched by the government to promote its industry and to implement its planned renovations of Paris. Moreover, it says that the nature of the reforms that took place impacted the aspects of fine and applied arts.

The article provides information on the exhibition "Between the Fairs," which will be held at the Washburn Gallery in New York City on April 8-May 2, 1981. The exhibition will feature American decorative arts and paintings introduced during the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1853 and the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. During this period, American decorative arts were influenced by a variety of styles and influences from different countries.

The article reports on the staging of the "1959 Festival of Contemporary Arts" at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois from March 1, 1959 to April 6, 1959. The arts festival offers a program that skillfully and ambitiously explores developments in various fields such as art, literature, drama, film and music.

The article features the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts. It discusses the motives behind the founding of the Museum of Fine Arts and provides the historical details of the institution's origin. The treasures of the museum include Egyptian art, Asiatic art, original works of Greek and Roman art, and paintings from more important schools of Europe and America.

The article explores the representation of office image in visual arts by examining some paintings of office which depict artists' negative feelings toward office as locus of money and power. Among them are Edgar Degas' "Bouderie," Félix Valloton's "Interior: Red Armchair and Figures," Norman Rockwell's "Daydreamer" and Edward Hopper's "Office at Night." The author notes that artists' negative representation of office reveal something of human needs in the white-collar workplace.

The article examines the arts of the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S., where nature and social pattern collaborate to produce spectacular art objects. It includes background information on the Pacific Northwest and its rich cultural and historical heritage, as well as a description of artworks by various artists from the region.

The article discusses the consideration of jazz as the theme for most artworks by European and American artists including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from the first part of twentieth century through 1950s. It is informed that the spread of jazz in Europe was due to the appearance of American jazz bands which left an impact on numerous artists. It is revealed the striking multiplicity and diversity of response by artists to jazz which was seen as urban and primitive, and joyous and anguished.

The article highlights the traveling art exhibition of "Masterpieces of Korean Art" in the United States. The show is organized by the Korean government in conjunction with the U.S. State Department, the Rockefeller Foundation and the American-Korean Foundation. The exhibition opened in the National Gallery of Art in Washington on December 15, 1957. The exhibition will be shown at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City from February 7-March 30, 1958.

The article profiles the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart in Suffern, New York. His elements as an artist can be foreseen in the hall of his stone house for it bespeaks a tradition of lively family life where art is not confused with scholarship, nor civilization with culture. Although his approach to painting has been entirely ungestural and concerned with building a canvas rather than firing at it, he is still classified as an Abstract Expressionist.

The article offers news briefs related to people in the arts. Georgia O'Keeffe and Thomas Hart Benton were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sherman Hoeflich is one of the artists who won awards at the third Salon Bosio international painting and sculpture competition. Richard McLanathan was named acting curator of museums at the Atlanta Art Association.

The article announces the career development of several notable people in the arts including Otto Wittmann as president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, Henry P. Maynard as curator of American Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum, and Wayne V. Andersen as senior curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

The article discusses on the fine arts and architectural designs that originated in Finland. It states that the country's fine art tradition was formally established with the opening of the Finnish Society of Fine Arts in 1846. It adds that the country's fine art tradition is heavily influenced by Impressionism, Analytical Cubism, and Expressionism.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience when he toured several universities in New York State as part of the New York State Council on the Arts' highly landed program "Contemporary Voices in the Arts."

The article offers information on the art collections of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) in the U.S. NCFA houses more than 11,000 art collections from various artists and private donors which include the gift of William T. Evans that is regarded as one of the interesting collections found in the gallery. It also features miniature objects of glass utensils and machines as well as sculptures, paintings and abstracts.

The author presents his views on what he believes to be the viciously reactionary tendencies of the "Arts Magazine" under its editorship in 1963-1964. He notices this tendency with Vernon Young's article "Nostalgia of the Infinite." Young's criticisms on Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico shows interesting prejudices against modern architecture and Abstract Expressionism. The author finds this reaction to be a kind of treason that should not be followed in 1964.

The article discusses the function of chief curator in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and how he manages it. Being a chief curator is not easy because many responsibilities are to be taken, not only managing the museum but making a great variety of new disciplines and policies. Further, it is the task of the chief curator to create an atmosphere in which his staff will find the maximum opportunity to operate in a create way.

The article reports on the financial performance of the art market in the U.S. in 1973. Several art dealers denote that the art market is flourishing. Some experts speculate that at least $75 million of art was traded in the above mentioned year in various galleries, particularly in New York. Despite the uprising trend, other merchants of lesser-known galleries state that they are selling less. Indeed, several dealers foresee a good year in the art business in 1974.

A quiz concerning paintings with musical subjects is presented.

The article announces several appointments including Francis A. Ruzicka as president of the Parsons School of Design in New York, Robert F. Metzdorf as a member of the board of directors of Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. and Lessing J. Rosenwald as a trustee of the National Gallery of Art.

The article provides information concerning the fellowships carried out by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Fine Arts Work Center was started with the intention of encouraging artistic development. It provides twenty fellowships annually, 10 artists and 10 writers. The author implies that a young artist or writer can continue exploring various possibilities without distraction if they are further along in their development.

The article announces the appointments of various executives in the U.S. including Paul Le Roy Grigaut as vice-director and head of the Collections Division of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Malcolm Cowley as president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and Richard Diebenkorn as artist-in-residence at Stanford University.

The article announces the promotions and appointments of executives in the U.S. including Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr III as assistant curator at the Minneapolis Institue of Arts, John R. Spencer as acting director of the Allen Memorial Museum at Oberlin College, and Willis F. Wood as director of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The article reports on career developments of executives within the art industry in the U.S. Peter Pollack has been appointed director of the American Federation of Arts. R. Henry Norweb has been elected president of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Gordon Bailey Washburn has resigned as director of the Department of Fine Arts of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

The article announces that Robert Owen Parks was named as curator at the Ringling Museum of Arts in Florida, Donald Barthelme was appointed as director at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Texas, and David Gebhart was resigned as director at Roswell Museum and Art Center in California.

The article announces that James Johnson Sweeney was appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston in Texas, and Jules Heller was named director of the School of Arts at the Pennsylvania State University.

The article reports on career developments of executives in the art industry in the U.S. Painter Peter Blume and the sculptor Ivan Mestrovic were elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. R. Buckminster Fuller has been named Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Leonard Bernheim Meyer has been named a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Liberal Arts.

The article offers information on various activities in the arts. It notes that the New York University has commissioned the sculptor Reuben Nakian to produce a sculpture for the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium of the university's Loeb Student Center on Washington Square South in Manhattan. Max W. Sullivan has been appointed director of the Everson Museum of Arts in Syracuse, New York. Richard Nelson Gregg has been appointed head of the education department of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The article reports on career developments in the field of arts in the U.S. William C. Seitz has been appointed associate curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions. Louis I. Kahn will receive the 1960 Brunner Award from the National Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Agnes Mongan will become the Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on the Fine Arts at Harvard University.

The article offers news briefs on various arts events in the United States. The National Institute of Arts and Letters has announced the election of twelve new members to its body. Citations for distinction in the creative arts were awarded to eight graduates of Randolph-Macon Women's College during the college's art symposium on "The Creative Process." Winners of the Rome Prize Fellowships have been announced by Michael Rapuano, president of the American Academy in Rome..

The article reports on developments relevant to the arts and museums as of September 1959. Twelve artists have been selected to represent the U.S. in the fifth Sao Paulo Bienal from September 21 to December 31. Sam Hunter has been appointed acting director at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Dr. Sterling A. Callisen has been elected president of the Parsons School of Design in New York.

The article profiles several people in the arts. It reports that John F. Lewis Jr. recently resigned as president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It notes that Jimmy Ernst, a painter, has been awarded the largest interior mural commission to be executed in the United States. It mentions that Richard Grove has been appointed director of the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

The article announces appointments, promotions and retirements in the U.S. art industry including the election of Abraham Rattner and Raphael Soyer as members of the Department of Art of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, presentation of the creative-arts awards to Jacques Lipchitz and the awarding of a grant to sculptor Richard Lippold.

The article presents news briefs about people from the arts sector in the United States. Porter A. McCray has been elected a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. Lin Emery won first prize in the sculpture-ceramics division at the Louisiana Art Commission's state-wide competition in sculpture. W.G. Constable has retired as Curator of Paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The article announces that Jean Coeteau, a French poet and playwright, and Luigi Nervi, an Italian architect, were appointed as Honorary Members of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and several awards were given to people in the field of arts including the $300 Herminie E. Kleinert award to Mr. Alexander, an artist of Woodstock, New York, and the first Artists Prize of $250 to Betty Cooke.

The article reports on developments related to people in the arts in the United States as of June 1957. Painter Morris Graves is the first American recipient of the Windsor Award. Karl Zerbe was elected president of Artists Equity Association. The Award of Merit Medal and prize from American Academy of Arts and Letters was presented to the painter Raphael Soyer.

The article announces several appointments including George W. Staempfli as the coordinator of the Fine Arts Program in the Office of the United States Commissioner General to the Brussels World's Affair, David E. Finley as member of Board of Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D. C., and Kenneth Evett as lecturer at the Eleventh Festival of Contemporary Arts in Cornell University.

The article presents news briefs related to the arts. Elizabeth Riefstahl will be retiring from her position as Assistant Curator of Ancient Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum awarded fellowships to Jane P. Powell and Martin L. Friedman. F. Carlton Ball will be joining the Fine Arts Department of the University of Southern California.

The article presents news items concerning people involved in the arts in the U.S. Boris Margo will tour in February 1956 to lecture on his theories on painting and graphic ideas. Artist and illustrator Fritz Eichenberg was appointed Chairman of the Illustration Department of the Arts School of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and Director of the Institute's Graphic Arts Workshop. New members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters include author Lewis Mumford and poet Marianne Moore.

The article announces the career development of several notable people in the art industry in the U.S. including Arthur A. Houghton Jr. who has been elected as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, William A. Leonard who has been named director of the Contemporary Arts Center and Donald Nice, who has been appointed administrative dean of the School of Visual Arts in New York.

The article announces appointments of notable people in the arts world in the U.S. including Painter Samuel M. Adler as the new associate member of the Center for Advanced Study of the University of Illinois in Urbana, Anthony M. Clark as the director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Forrest Selvig as the assistant director of Gallery of Modern Art.

The article offers U.S. news briefs related to the art industry. George Hamilton Montgomery has been appointed as director of the Museum of Early American Folk Arts. The Fourth Congress of the International Association of Plastic Arts is expected to attract more than a hundred artist-delegates, which will be held from October 6-12, 1963. The Art Building and Museum of the University of Texas has been opened for classes and is set to begin its museum activities.

The article reports on the World Conference of United Nations Decade for Wormen on July 14-30, 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Such event, which was participated by international artists, actresses, poets, dancers, and musicians, invoved the organization of the first International Festival for Women in the Arts, an exposition of postcards mailed by artists from some 20 countries including Australia, China, and the Philippines, and an exhibition of Danish women's artworks.

The article announces that painter Joseph Floch is the first American artist to be awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters; Wilhelmus B. Bryan has been appointed director of the Atlanta Art Association; and Harry Rodman has been elected chairperson of the New York State Board of Examiners of Architects.

The article announces several appointments including Perle Fine as special associate professor of fine arts at Hofstra College in Hempstead, Nathan Knobler as head of the University of Connecticut's art department, and Edgar I. Williams as president of the National Academy of Design.

The article reports on the developments related to art in the U.S. Noted American painter and teacher Edwin Dickinson has been elected as member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Louis Pomerantz, noted specialist in conservation and restoration of nineteenth-century and contemporary paintings, has become a National Gallery of Canada's guest restorer. Museum of Modern Art has announced that $16,000,000 has been raised in its current financial drive.

The article offers updates related to people in the art world. American painter Mark Tobey has earned the first painting prize worth $3,000 for an untitled canvas completed in 1960. Sheldon Keck has been appointed director of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. A deed of gift turning over a portion of his collection to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, California has been signed by Avery Brundage.

The article offers news briefs related to art industry in the U.S. Dr. Richard Franklin Humphreys is appointed as president of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The Ford Foundation announces a second series of fellowships for studies in the creative arts. The organizers of the Fulbright awards announces the deadline of the submission of its scholarship applications until May 1, 1961.

The article announces several appointments including Daniel Catton Rich as new member of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, Walter C. Baker as vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Carl J. Weinhardt as director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota.