TV news program. Host Charles Collingwood reports for CBS News from the opening of the Armory Show, 50th anniversary exhibition, April 1963, at the site of the original exhibition, the Armory 69th St. Regiment, New York, N.Y. Collingwood discusses the importance of the original exhibition, negative reviews in the press, huge attendance figures, and the show's impact on modern art. He interviews Sir Kenneth Clark and Marcel Duchamp.
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CBS News. CBS News Eyewitness: "The Art Show that Shocked America", 1963 April. The art show that shocked America [motion picture] / CBS News Eyewitness, 1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Provenance unknown; possibly received with Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Armory Show 50th anniversary exhibition records, 1965.
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Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
