Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Alfred Barr

Born: January 28, 1902
Died: August 15, 1981 (aged 79)
Bio: Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr., known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Known for:
- Cubism and abstract art (1936)
- What is modern painting? (1943)
- Art in Our Time
- Picasso, fifty years of his art
- Matisse, His Art and His Public (1951)