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Direct them is a modern art your city station brings or the opening ceremonies celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of this world famous New York institutions participating in today's commemorative event which comes from the fifty fourth Street side of the museum the sculpture garden dot com or Theo Secretary-General of the United Nations Robert F. Wagner mayor of the city of New York August Textor Keith editorial writer for The Herald Tribune and Paul de sac professor emeritus Beinart of Harvard University and included in the program is a special methods from President Eisenhower and presiding over the ceremonies is William am burden president of the Museum of Modern Art Now in just one moment to preside over the ceremonies is President William Burton. There's a slight pause as the photographers take pictures we might mention that Mr Palmer C.E.O. known for his interest in art was big on the international significance of the museum and of Modern Art That's ahead here a member of the museum the junior Council a group of young friends of museum who have initiated and operate such programs as the museum's lending art service talks on the affinity of Modern Art and development of the mid century and professors facts formerly a director of the fog museum in Cambridge and a trustee of the museum since one nine hundred twenty nine big on the history of museums. Members. Yet. We are happy that you are here to join in celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art. This is a moment which touches the heart as well as our mind. We like to think of our museum as a community bound together by Care to back experience and a common core. You all have scholars friends of water all members of the museum will serve this cause with power with knowledge with material and moral support all the members of this museum. To you that celebration is rightly dedicated. In our community the author is inevitably the leader. We power. The bigger and excellence of his work is the lifeblood of all our endeavors. If we take pride in our achievement that is provided by letting his method. Not was founded twenty five years ago by a small group of collectors who wanted others to share their enjoyment of the author of Our current. Proposal with their pastor divider to tell you more about the why founders and the able to form a staff member who worked on the altar it was the first director. The company of the museum thirty I've always been a distinguished one. Unfortunately it is impossible even to mention the here all that made important contribution to the me. I most reluctantly limit myself to a few great. With whom I've been privileged to work. With distinguished pictures with a cornerstone of the magnificent collection we see here. On the rock of public union the memory of losing quietly to liveblog with building and a sparkling in the beautiful garden around the gift about spending gone in honor of a great mother. That's going to. Lose great general out of a sense of politics we also many of the perp masterwork that make this the greatest assembly of modern ought in the world. And then a list of our outstanding brothers Congress Goodyear to captain the ship. And common plan for the first time to clear. The was the fact that we got the supplies in water and on who he was. Gone he would pass. Now our people voted. Him into quiet and moderate way. Good energy magination in Iraq have been the very heart of the museum during his seven years as president and long before. He is serving his country in Washington and we all regret that he cannot be here to join in the celebration of what is a lot like his own achievement. Now let us look at our own is. What we are going is perhaps best known. By the program. Which we are celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary. That. Graham which covers an entire year is a creation of our able. In telling you about it I paid. For them. These devoted men and women who generate ideas and give them reality for the very essence of the museum. They do all the real work. The magic of birth election and presentation. Help to draw five million people through these doors in the last ten years. All over the show which you will feel. As a reporter in the painting. A report which clearly outlines the solid foundation which has been built up in the past generation or the generation. Remaining gallery because I've been given up. Yet the four hundred words of op on there only one of our entire holding. Not every picture here claims to be a masterpiece it could not and should not be in a collection to go by any but after the I.P.O. We are showing a really comprehensive view of the Victoria lot a lot of. I would remind you that this collection has been assembled during years we are producing an ending stream. On the Crandon painting sculpture in the field of on the talk of free and the more. I'm not going for help it was single minded devotion. It would have been easy to neglect the basic structure of the collection in the whirlwind of daily activity. We all wonder bearable better. Educated and courageous God which generally recognized as one of the world's greatest parlays on modern art. Likewise we are deeply in debt the first these committees. But to start the ball I will go to an acquisition. They'll think the difficulty of allocating very limited herds of farms property ones have been very long. They are shown at Keno I press that with McAfee combined with an open mind of exception of new and controversial practice which may prove to be the method because of them are. Together with the paintings on the museum's collection you're showing it selection of American press the products marked by some of the rights of European graphic off. The record Britain resembled my principal action by its curator we might leave a. Publication to supplement may direct the basis of a common increasingly important aspect of our progress. Under the direction the world we live in a probable cases will add will work with here with long lead site. One million copies I was looking catalogs have been distributed to the public in the past ten years. Maybe a lot of us republication matters of modern All that is edited by author broad. And Rich record not a problem the paintings got. Abroad very selective work was born in what an exhibition because all the new decayed product to Europe European leaders and got. At the same time as the show what they will exhibited of you a contemporary American where. Edward Duggan dean of American photographers and director of operatic with the problem is now working on the organization of the exhibition the family of man. One of the most ambitious and repeal one of the most significant but ugly exhibition of. The Nazi German terminal architecture committee and the brain an exhibition of modern buildings from Latin America where modern architecture has been more widely accepted that they were out in the world. The director was going to pop in agriculture and you and your wife if your old one hundred on a subject looked at from all the exhibitions in that would design series. At this moment when they are assembling a collection of change in the modern fabrics and you're to be shown here later in the year. After all my bird headed by Richard Griffiths has prepared for films like as with anniversary year. The first dealing with films about films is now being shown to be followed later by current film and masterworks remark like. Look at the Me Go head of the museums the problem with the case it would have an exhibition illustrating the creative approach you ought to take that was so tough with about you know people that are. On a bus reacted with a we're not making fun of this building or only your other problem are circulating exhibitions had about what about right that prepared over sixty exhibitions with distribution in the United States and will support it with an actual program present many other in Europe Asia and Latin America. But you could run work for all these activities is now being prepared in a library which undergone a couple strikes and has become the center of study and research for the museum. All of this part program. Is under the supervision of the director of the museum Ron I don't know because this is a counter attack to the motion and makes it go. Run I. Bring the complicated task of director creative imagination tact. And all round ability that are rare indeed. We work with him through the years not only admire him as a great figure in the museum world but love him as a sincere and the like a human being. In posing. As president I wish to thank for the bottom of my heart the office. Staff members and members of the museum. Not possibilities of this office but happy and proud and I thank you. Ladies and gentlemen. We are greatly honored. That the president of the United States has a message for. The president. Wanted to bring my. Mother. And I have one we. You know the number that we're reminded of. All that we had ever. Been before is that we did not get out of a. One of the other you know I. Well I think. I was. Like well I'm going to have my head out of. The side. From where. Along. The. When I heard that. And one of the I don't really create with that. There will be a talking on the bridge again. Only again I regard for a. Lot of my friends that is in here and. I was I mean. When I read it because of again the. Problem with the rabbit and. I draw it. Let. Me know and every other great. Letter. Writer. Writes about. Your body becomes apparent from every writer. The Honorable Robert F.. MER of the city of New York. Sought to lead us to the planning is great the problem is last becoming the author capital of the world. Reading the. Secretary General's let me light is that. Other people here today will speak to you about the Museum of Modern thought unique and important contribution to the nation and to the world in which we live. As mayor of the city of New Yawk and as a New York that I would like to say a few words about the Museum of Modern not. At the New York Institute and the arc of the two can we are happy to congratulate on the twenty fifth anniversary. Like many new enterprises when the Museum of Modern Art was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine it had a small that a handful of loyal supporters and I read that room. During the past quarter of a century it had grown and prosper those creative ideas and a responsive climate drive capital a tendon. In nineteen thirty nine the main building designed in modern styles was open to the public and had. Become a familiar landmarks in our city. Boy is a goal a blast and feeling was added and last year the sculpture garden where we are meeting today was completed and dedicated to Abbey already Rockefeller one of the museum founded. In a few days a Institute in the Whitney Museum will open next door and in the summer of one hundred fifty five Adonal free circulating library and reading room a branch of the New York Public Library will open across the street. But the Museum of Modern Art which began a career so modestly in a few rented rooms as become the hub of one of New York's new it and most outstanding cultural center. It is sometimes said that New York does not represent the true heart of America. Yet there is no other community that draws so much from the result because of all party a state. And in that respect the music the Museum of Modern Art is a typical New York institution for its draws on all of the state for the paintings and sculptor and print it exhibits for the films and photographs architectural design itself. And just as New York City is a cosmopolitan feather drawing on the whole world so there's a museum concern itself with all the art of our time from of the world like Rome and Paris and London New York City has produced a powerful and stimulating intellectual climate. Which attracts people and ideas from everywhere to make one creative community. The Museum of Modern Art is one of the most important focal points of creative community in New York City it is a typical Institute and in another way. Always concerned with the practical application of the art survive times daily life the museum has made particular contributions to our civic life and special exposition. City planning housing Brid even the signs in a creek and the automobile which passed them have been the subject of gold at the museum other exhibitions operate pared by the museum here and spend on to our public schools but making a direct contribution to know to New York City is that. Unlike the city which is its own our Museum of Modern Art is constantly on the alert for the new calendar the new I fear the new kind of step that may improve on the old it is building it is frequently crowded at the favorite visiting place for New York good and out of town but above all it is always true to its own standards of quality not upgrade of country. Not afraid of growing. The Museum of Modern Art as added much to the cultural importance of the York City in a period twenty five years. We all expect this record to be maintained and I think we look forward to new ideas and new services that the new team and his effect and what it's saying thank you. Ladies and gentlemen Dr Paul Joyce. Professor upon us from our other Harvard University. I'm the only printing for the museum proportion of young man ran the law museum today with founding and even before. The stuff. With the birds with the Whitney ladies and gotten. As an old retired museum like a who has from the day of its birth what the Mirek going to development of the Museum of Modern Art and who rejoices that it continues to be an educational institution I am delighted to speak briefly of the crying need bodies create. And of its every day. No other museum has than I in the L. word of comparable in part in the span of a quarter century. All acquired you to its own buying policy. As representative of a group of significant modern What. Twenty five years ago we were all as a matter of cold reading modern that. We were listening to modern music. But in spite of the excite them the invented by the armory so of nineteen take the. Country on the whole was antagonistic to modern knowledge. That was not unnatural or only in the top about the. Usually helpful but often better would be to. Get the public had limited access to American and European art a contemporary bite out of. It was a deplorable situation. To correct it seemed a pressing need. To me before the days of Joseph Roma and caught. In one thousand nine hundred twenty nine three remarkable women did. What convinced that modern art might be better than the good and enjoyed only if properly presented on to get interested the museum but all there to be kept broadly international in its approach to the visual out of. The three women with courage and faith with a pioneering kept good Mr Liddy pleaded bliss. Who in one nine hundred thirty one gave to the new museum. Foundation. By the cleaving have great collect on condition. That an endowment large enough to guarantee its proper housing and display the rate. The late Mrs Dunn the Rockefeller doing the apron of Modern Art and in fire of all who ever associated with. And Mrs canniest date all of them a collector who radiated a contagious include the Adams. The third movie that these three women made with discreet to cooperate to a practical man and minute in the lead up in Modern off that car it's a wise one they're on a condo Goodyear known for his inspiring leadership as president of the Albright art gallery in Buffalo. Fortunately Mr Goodyear accepted the calendaring in the case. He helped the three ladies to enlist the support of other founders Mrs W. Mary crane and with the prank crown and both open minded in backing good cause. It was my privilege to be associated with them. May I remind you this company that without a condo Goodyear and even speak up two of our oldest press the button that Lee still active in this great institution could not have the by all process. General good year for the first decade of our history with presidents we are deeply grateful. That because it is stupid and a brisk one could better to and he's done paving the way he guided us through the difficult to prick. Giving him without stint and who can read the thought to our manifold problems. And with the even Prof more than ever any other single person who gave his name and thought of keeping the museum going during the difficult war. When the gang gunmen were away. I with the what time to dwell on the long run but these were done so much for the museum in the post office and such generous trustees as Mrs side in government I always tell you that you know I get it. All so then can build a. Family with Edward was. Good a good wind up to take a big hunk of nobility Nelson Rockefeller done with Mrs David Levy and Henry Allen most. The UNIFIL meeting of the board which called as you've been told in rented rooms in the act of building. A home for two years there we met officially Alfred H. junior first director a scholar connoisseur at twenty seven and he's able to associate Jerry at it. As teacher at Wellesley College by giving proof of his intimate knowledge of modern art which happened a was famously rooted in a knowledge of the art of the past. It had been his good fortune to enjoy the benefits of a rigorous Princeton training as the gifted disciple of three of the greatest scholar teachers Alan muck one Frank George Mather and Charles Rufus Morey separate invented by graduate study of vests he was well trained and ready to stage exhibitions of distinction. The backbone of the museum's educational program. During the first years Alfred Bo was joined by a number of talented men and women such as Philip Johnson who organized the museum's first exhibition of architecture and design. We negotiated the museum series of exhibitions of exotic and primitive office and Dorothy Miller who served as the first assistant to the director and he's now the distinguished curator of the museum's collection. Mr Bowden has told you about the staff members who are now carrying on the work under their leader about present leadership about present dynamic director Raney don't know. It seems appropriate for me to mention some of the former department. Who had made such valuable contributions to the museum's progress and success. These include in the field of painting and sculpture the distinguished up critics James throwing so-be and James Johnson suite in architecture and design John McCann grow and Elizabeth mom and in photography and motion pictures. John Boehner and Norah John Abbott and Iris Barry. Christie's and step as a team kept alive the spirit that animated the founders while ever moving fall. They have continued to take chances they have avoided the dangerous the dog the footsteps of the complacent they have made the museum a telling instrument in the field of general education they have given proof of their capacity to see elect the best of the tight they have circulated as you've been told travelling exhibitions and sound publications in a steady stream father didn't write any instruction about basketball. What more natural than that these men and women should have helped people to see. And to discriminate they have taught us all that modern art like the art of the past maybe realistic or abstract traditional All right Sperry mental conservative or radical their influence and example have liberalized the policies of everyone about leading museums even the most self-satisfied. Through current courageous audacious and crusading leadership the museums change the climate of public opinion from wonderful Still it is twenty five years ago to one that is today open minded and receptive to all aspects of modern art. No longer is the new dismissed with contempt and ridicule instead there is in the art world of America and attitude of curiosity reflected in books and periodicals in the daily press yes even in the universities. For so happy a change this institution is primarily responsible only by ever higher nearing Bove and by taking risks with the museum continue to escape the dangers that go with the ability. That embarrassed outlane is out history that is out there still. May we at our fiftieth anniversary stand before the world at youthful and forward looking is today respected and ready to embark on further to say this to the nation. Thank you thank you. Thank you Professor Sachs but that was thoughtful because. It is now my pleasure to introduce August hechsher chief editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune. A leading member of the museum's junior Council a young and piercing intellect who looks toward the future it was a hechsher building built by grandfather but this museum opened its first exhibition twenty five years ago today just actually. I'm. Just a bit distinguished. Friends of the museum. We look back today over twenty five years we look forward not to twenty five or fifty but to as long a time as free men and women so cherish the arts in a free land we stand upon the solid ground of history and we have to carry us across this future only the frail wings of a philosopher. As one who would interpret with you this philosophy I come with the meager Mr potentials newspaperman it is my task most days. The week to see in the passing of Van Dam a shadow of the thing that endures and it is my task today at this milestone of the institution which has been built by the efforts in the imagination and the generosity of so many to find words that may express what is the essence of modern art that makes it central and significant to opt out. I begin with a very personal about I never come to this place without feeling myself surrounded by a kind of reason and Pete it made every two for a very wild and willing kind of reason it may be a dynamic and even a very kind of peace yet there is something here which meets the contemporary mood and the hunger of the modern man I'm sure that I'm not alone in feeling that the artist must feel it and all lovers of all the youngest child must feel it a drag. On willingly into a strange world of color and of space and all the wide ballet slippers beautiful young lady they must surely feel are converging as from everywhere upon their natural home. These know that in some deep way they have touched springs here which can give life to a heightened awareness which hints at what this mid century world might be if all it was fulfilled and all its inmost truth made luminous and visible what is modern are. Simply all that happens to have been created under today's Sun. Thing that falls into one of a dozen schools the Impressionists the cubist The Serialist and the rest. In so far as it is merely the thing modern art is in danger perpetually in danger of becoming out of date or what is worse of becoming a fad and not even possessing the dignity of the old fashion but in so far as it represents a genuine vision of the world it can never fade in this way it will remain at least as modern as classic Greek are at least as new as the art of the Renaissance social order made it into great systems of religion and philosophy passed away but the visionary and creative moment of every age. Retain a lasting validity. That this museum gives to its visitors a sense of being one with the modern world for a first and very simple reason the spirit of ought to round here at this case from the wall has penetrated the workaday world and is made at home in the least expected places it is in the street to the shop in the buildings of the city in the plainest implements of household you. Play this is because the real world as existed so tremendous an influence on the ideal concept of form the modern flying machine is what it must be and the artist perceive that it is to want it is best he would have wanted it to be the essence of a thing. Temperament and preconceptions but in no small measure there is an affinity between what we find here in the museum and what we see in the outside world because this museum is for twenty five years deliberately and imaginative a thought to instruction to elevate the taste of a wide public it is sought to make clear that modern art is not peripheral and aloof but is related to the machinery to science to industry to urban and to all that distinguishes the modern community. By this omnipresent and popularity of modern art bringing their own dangers we have watched the MO be able to take one example become a hobby a common part of the great do it yourself saga and then become an ad man here for telling So we have seen people who think it hopelessly naive to put the painting of a real ass. On the wall think it very sophisticated to build a real wall as if it were a Mondrian painting that is to say we have seen modern are used in Congress play exploited and vulgar our Belgrade that is the inevitable danger. Yet for the next twenty five years and for much more than that this museum will go on proudly making the effort and I hope that the junior Council will be at the heart of that effort getting the outside world to resemble a little more closely what the Office of recognizes the ideal. There is a second way in which the museum gives a sense of being in harmony with the contemporary world. If work is related as the president of the United States has just reminded reminded us of the central struggle of the age the struggle of freedom against tyranny we know that where tyranny takes over whether under fascism or communism modern art is destroyed in exile why should this be modern art is by its nature a revelation at its most characteristic it can never be propaganda whether propaganda for a bad or a good cause it is individualistic experimental eclectic all qualities which the totalitarian state cannot abide it establishes a plurality of words have you ever thought that modern art is unique in recognizing and affirming the validity of many approaches alone of the great school its sanctions what might be called a diversity of style in other F.X. they would have been departures from the accepted norms there are eccentrics among the office and heritage among the idea but under the sheltering roof of this museum there is and there has been a genuine hospitality It is a hospitality base not upon the fact that the curators are unable to make up their minds but on a much more important fact that they believe excellence. Truth and Beauty to be many sided. This many side of this is a fundamental belief also of a free society but I would go further the constant drive of the modern artist to separate and distinguish to break up the surface into forms of life to show the elements that compose the whole is in line with what is best in modern political philosophy the great community which once appeared monolithic congealed under a cake of custom. That reveals itself in all its multifarious interests power is die few decision making is shared in the centralized public opinion is seen to be the opinion of many separate publics upon a particular matter. And seeing the community this way analogous to the way that today's artists see the one solid object we find around us the material for creating a free and varied common life. And I argument you will see is that modern art is harmonious with the genius of the modern world the pure perceptions of the artist have been able to influence the more practical arts such as architecture and industrial design because this intrinsic harmony exists and as today's thought extends itself in various fields to the front to years of knowledge and a feeling this home and it is ever more vividly a sense I have spoken of political philosophy but is it not is not the same thing true of advanced science advanced mathematics and bad psychology no one of us will ever experience the sensation of development in any one of these feelings yet to the extent that we are perceived dimly what goes on in the mind letter saying. With thermal nuclear physicists all of a psychologist breaking through the barriers of consciousness we do we feel it one do we know with the mood of the modern audience we stand with him at the thin transparent age of our civilization and the light falling about us is that clear partial light that pervades so much of contemporary art. Is it not true finally and above all and I ask you to follow me now into more difficult territory is it not true finally that Martin is in key with a modern man whose religion if Ayatollah understand what the theologians are saying who addressed themselves to today's world it is that there is an actuality and a direct this in the religious experience very different from the vague pantheism which was once thought so refined and so up to date. A spirit and a vision said William Blake and I quote a man who can claim to be a modern artist as well as a prophet of modernity a spirit and a vision I'm not as a philosopher I suppose is a cloudy vapor or nothing they are organized and my nuclear articulated beyond all that mortal and perishing nature can produce Well the crowd a vapor has gone out of theology and there is gone out of our the idea that something mysterious must be missed or later part of the vision organized in my new play articulated is what the preponderance of canvases in this museum reveal and it appears was a great model theologians from Kierkegaard the carb of that scene and their higher there are to a moment. The idea of nature as an encompassing element in which all the world when I think we're going to see the idea of God as a feature of generality transfusing this nature basically the nineteenth century and colored it up the twentieth century mood of spades the world interfere at a time like it gets man somewhat outside this imprisoning nature it makes God if there is a God and if scientists increasingly tell us that there is a being and in essence not enough I'm not a shadowy presence manifesting itself in cows and trees and babies and other such that they are that into far as he is a creator can without laughter maybe take on something of the character of the Creator and tell he can be more objective Pascha more facts will than his predecessor he can see form and not papers merely a reality. He knows that reality is of all things the most mysterious a visionary he knows that the vision if truly seen is opaque and solid we say of much modern artillery not that it is abstract in relation to the literal object in relation to the nineteenth century idea of nature it is I suppose abstract but in relation to the ultimate reality it may be said not to be abstracted tall it is surprisingly concrete and it tells the returns of late play as organized and my new play articulated as mortal and perishing nature can produce the generations before us so it is all the idea of a settled a cosmic order in which men play their part as in some great drama they saw the external world lose its absolute moral significance our generation has seen the external world lose its absolute physical significance matter has melted away under the impact of fate or objective mental concepts melted away under the impact of pride in psychology yet man man the artist man. Remains Sometimes it seems that he alone remains here in the essence of things with which he is blindingly face to face. More than anyone in the office of experience a progressive meaninglessness in the universe he has seen the last of us already by the religious dogmas that once told him what to paint and actually proud of painted yourself at the burden of things not making sense and the even greater burden I think of that in the old liberal way and even things are told he more than anyone else shared in what is sometimes been called the anxiety and sometimes the despair of the age is a for that reason left the office on the left the man yet had the dignity to appear that what. He is possessed what Paul Tillich called the courage to be the chaos he is given a full minute shape so that it isn't quite chaotic anymore and he thought which began as a revelation and as all great art not as a prophecy. And so ladies and gentlemen without further ado I give you the use of modern art. Pretty among half sisters all I can see daughter being from the deep essence of things she thought a vision of the truth with such vigor and claptrap that under her spell men feel as if they had looked upon this too for the first time or as if they want about to look on it for the last time yet she is younger than her sisters she a FACT CLAIM colored. She shows a little respect for a settled way she scorns not the world those are those who was to come seeking the immediacy attack the I'm shaded experience the sharp excitement that contains the whole she can be a vile deceiver a most ardent will she will if you please leave empty handed. With only a few wild and strange a few crude forms that a child might have made to show for the encounter but giving herself he gave the agony and the brightness at the time to call. Yeah yeah there has been built a place where moto not going to be at home for twenty five years the trustees and staff have pioneered in excellence and a long time from down by twenty five years but I've come to see but a brief span in the museum's total exist that excellence and backed by talent must still be the Home Office of the museum's work thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mr actually that sensitive and perceptive talk. I now wish to introduce the honorable dog how we show the secretary general of the United Nations international statesman. Discerning honest sir and scholarly student of Modern Art and its philosophy secretary. Thank you I. The garden distinguished guests Davis and gentlemen. It may seem strange that on a shoot at a celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the great New York institution the secretary general of United Nations should take an active part. However I feel greatly on the to do so in view of the significant sort of museum over knocked and overtake. The United Nations secretary and its secretary general those special thanks to the student for its generosity and for a stimulating relationship which I hope will grow with time. On a personal level I would like to add that I am flattered to be recognized in this connection as a fellow citizen of New York. The old click here. Is not modern in the sense that it has to have a number of expressing the latest of the shifting passions of a messy life sation which long ago lost its anchorage in a firm scale of values. In the post values inspired by the generally accepted. Norm model in the same sort of comic strips or similar attempts to use the technique sought to cater for the broke emotional needs through cheap pretty representation of sentimentalized reality. It is a resealable modern art that nice for you and for me a museum for a lot which reflects the inner problems of our generation and has created in the hope of meeting some of its basic needs. Although modern art in the sense in which I used to work he says peculiar to our age has to be packed into a jet plane at the reactor at a skyscraper it is just already Mr picture pointed out in no way not just of today. Indeed the origins of its special problems and its attempts at solutions date back to the time of the past century when developments leading to the technology moves which were not pride ourselves first started their skyrocketing cost. The team and soon which we pride ourselves. We regarded as happened in the same typical technological sweeteners as progress and of course we do scrubbers. But is it justified to consider also the arc which is contemporaneous indeed partly inspired by that development as a representative of step four. Hundred will rule has said that mobile not has not produced a similar work about bearable to the highest achieving some Occidental in the past. Isn't the right. I also remember his brilliant crude phrase about the nineteenth century. That the center of which was obsessed by the cathedral did not leave behind it more than one the museum in which it connected all its paintings. Does not this paradox reveals something essential. If we demand of all that it should be the expression or immature unbalanced mastery of the relationship of man and the civilization. Then modern art to be sure does not reach levels that were already achieved in the distant past you know of Western civilization. Then it is not progress. That may be there are two qualities which are shared in common by mother not in the scientific theory. One has the courage of a previous research put of basic elements of experience the other one is perseverance into fire for mastery of those very elements. The need for live coverage of the search establishes the decisive difference between modern art and the art of the past living in and expressing the world of. Agnostic search based on the reevaluation of all values is a quality of modern art that is an exceptional expression of this critical situation of our generation. But this quality in itself must prevent Mauler not from achieving the kind of perfection which meet in the cathedral shop or in the paintings of the author. The second quality perseverance in the fight for mastery is on the counter of the main great quality that modern art shares with out of the past. I have already called to borrow let me quote to negate. The victory over not the story servitude joins to massive victory about itself over the fate of man. The romantic conviction expressed in these words is what makes your love Francesca and reverent sermon back members of one great fraternity. In that conviction and in the fight against piracy the artists who aimed at a transfiguration a reality meet the artists who now strive for an explanation and recreate of reality. In its search for the basic elements of the world surrounding us and in its fight for mastery of those elements. More than not has revealed to us also where lies the real victory of the great our artists of the past. Without making us eclectics it has helped us to understand as far as that is possible without sharing their most fear a face in which they were born what has been achieved in the harmony of the best works of the past. Modern Art has forced the stupefaction which does not itself reached. Shouldering courageously the problems of modern man reflecting his situation in a sick world of conflicts born out of his own achievements it has thus own delivery contents of being permitted also to human aid the greatness of men in the high artistic achievements of the past. Or gives more to life than it takes from it. Through art does not depend on the reality about which it tells. Its message nicely the new reality which it creates by the way in which it reflects experience. In our minds we all of us sometimes choose a beauty of a stone no matter. If we had the courage and perseverance to push through these experiences or few moments to the extreme point. We would share in the effort of the more than obvious to isolate Putin from the impure the life. Even if it has to be at the cost of the solving the reforms of life. Why then seeing more than not should we feel a strange when we do not for the first glance recognize the familiar aspects of our everyday work. More than not teaches us to see by forcing us to use our senses our intellect our sensibility to follow it on the road of exploration. It makes us see or. Feel like there's a pound when in the first hour is peace on account of the senses I called the enormous edge of the other dream in the present and then shoulder. And explore. These We must be if we are to prevail. It may seem to you to be far fetched if in the light of what I just said I draw attention to activities in which my colleague and I myself share. All the same I will do so because this Carol means a lot to me. For that reason I may perhaps come from the interest which we are all willing to grant most of the time to all honestly held convictions. In modern international politics aiming towards that world order which now more than ever seems to be the only alternative to reproduction and disaster we have to approach our task in the spirit which animates the modern office. We have to tackle our problems without the hour of inherited convictions or set formula but only with our barren hands and all that honestly we can not. We have to do so would an unpredictable will to master the you know it matter of patterns created by history and social logical conditions. Even in the political sphere we are likely to look to creations of the past when a failure. But we know that those creations can never be brought back to life. That ours is to do to find you for stopping or come from nothing. We know that these thoughts will not be found without the courage of that deep sincerity which is shown in the search of the great office of our age or without the furnace and perseverance which they have demonstrated in their relentless efforts to reach mastery. One of the great composers of our age that said that our peace must start up again and again from two colors three notes or the right angle. That is a clue to the spirit of the masters of modern art. On that basis they have in their best moments rivals nature and mathematics. The heaven lessons of people. Who work in others we are to live with problems created by the developments which have set the stage for our life today. These restrictions have tax increases inside a field where frankly I feel too much of an outsider to have a right to speak to you. However I hope that my words may tell you something about how the beauty and significance of what this museum stands for. He said affected in the mind of well the stats you know are calling it to build a better world Dynasty are seemingly very far from that of the great doctor East's he represented. The art in which achievement was a loss are still mostly very close to God it was three notes and the right I think thank you have been listening to the opening ceremonies celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art participating in today's commemorative events which came to direct from the museum sculpture garden where a dog hammer shows secretary general of the United Nations Robert F. Wagner the mayor of the city of New York August texture chief editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune and Paul J. Sachs Professor Emeritus fine arts of Harvard University included in the program was a special message from Dwight D. Eisenhower President of the United States and presiding over the ceremonies was William am burden president of the Museum of Modern Art brought to you through the special facilities of the municipal Broadcasting System This has been another public service feature of your city station we return you now to our studios.