Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function of the Peabody Museum in the Cambridge community was further pinpointed by its present director, John Otis Brew, who is also the present holder of the Peabody chair: "We have two kinds of exhibits in the Museum. Since we realize that much of our wonderful collection is of general interest, we show the most flashy material in the large halls, where our explanations are simple and directed to the layman who just wants a background at the level of Anthropology 1. The other type of exhibit is the highly specialized one, the sort of showing that only a very...
...These should serve as models for all future changes. The cases are lit from inside by good strong spotlighting; their labels are clear and consise, and informative essays are conveniently placed. They are admirably anthropological in nature: the viewer really gets an idea of Mayan culture after studying the exhibit...
...magnificent collection of primitive art involved a responsibility to the art world. In connection with Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he has found what may well prove to be the ideal solution. The Peabody will lend about three hundred examples of primitive art for exhibit in a gallery permanently set aside for it in the Museum of Fine Arts. The primitive works will be shown in a manner befitting any more recent work...
...exhibitions, space is not a major problem. The Museum's big Victorian hallways have much potential area for new displays if the space is used with ingenuity. Director Brew was able to make a reading room for the Library out of some first floor gallery space and still retained every case in the exhibit--and in a better arrangement than before...
...tough Andrei Gromyko, would be ready to broaden and exploit any Western fissures. Even before the conference got under way, the Russians started the probing by demanding a conference-table seat for the East German puppet government. And while Nikita Khrushchev genially popped over to inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth" (see FOREIGN NEWS...