Art: Freedom, Drunkenness

The Society of Independent Artists in Manhattan has for many years boasted of its exemption from any jury system of selection of exhibits. If an artist so desires, he can hang himself in the place allotted him. It is completely free from censorship. Everything offered is exhibited. This record is stained by but one smirch: a year ago a painter succeeded in executing a work which the Society felt it was unable to present.

This year, in the exhibition which opened at the Waldorf last week, everything submitted at curtain time had been...

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