Music: Step Right Up to the Great Culture-Kultura Bazaar

For the first time in six years, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are rushing to exchange the best of their artists

Vladimir Horowitz has been there, filling the halls in Moscow and Leningrad with his Olympian mastery of the piano. Coming here this week--first to Washington, then to Los Angeles and New York City--will be some of the most beautiful sights earth-bound folk are ever likely to see: paintings by, among others, Cézanne, Matisse, Monet and Renoir. "Matisse is one of the giants of the 20th century," says J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery. "But many of his early works have been locked up in the Soviet Union.[*] No other single Matisse is as wonderful as The Red Room [formally...

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