Art: Philadelphia's Fulop

Few artists, art critics or art patrons who do not live in Manhattan are quick to concede that that angular island is the art capital of the U. S. Yet it is to Manhattan that most U. S. art disputes, such as one which lately raged in Philadelphia, are taken for judgment.

About a year ago, ten public-spirited Philadelphians commissioned a Hungarian artist named Karoly Fulop, who lives in Paris, to paint five great murals for the music room of the Philadelphia Free Library. They did not...

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