Arts and Manners

150 Drawings—But Out of This World

But how can an exasperated man avoid exasperation? I have just returned from an exhibition, “Recent Drawings U.S.A.,” in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The effect was staggering. The heart aches more than the feet, the mind is considerably more stimulated than the eyes (though not necessarily the way the exhibited artists intended to stimulate) and my hunger for beauty was never less satisfied.