The 1958 blaze turned the painting into a "burned marshmallow." A artwork damaged by fire at the Museum of Modern Art, 1958. Photo: Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The reason the fire ...
In 1949, the avant-garde American sculptor Philip Pavia declared, "The first half of the century belonged to Paris. The next half century will be ours." He was referring to a loose association of ...