Arts and Literature
- March 6 - The National Gallery of Canada acquires Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire for $1.8 million causing a storm of controversy.
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“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
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“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”
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“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”
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