Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a dog show opened in Chicago last March, the National Society for Medical Research-long a target for the Hearstpapers' antivivisectionist crusades-staged a counteroffensive. The society put on its own exhibit, where dog lovers could watch four dogs from the laboratories of Illinois universities. The doctors wanted to show that experiments had not made the dogs miserable...
...represented the renegade Frenchman's art. Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said one: "The best retrospective show ever staged in France...
Last week a federal statutory court in New York shaved their borrowed time a little more closely. The court told the three companies that they could make and distribute pictures or exhibit them, but not both at the same time. Even so, an appeal to the Supreme Court might still stave off the final divorce decree for as long as four years...
...Picasso exhibit is like an automobile show," quipped one Paris critic, "everybody . . . flocks there, eager to see the new models...
Last week many Americans were getting their first good look at the subtly romantic, hilarious and nightmare worlds of Paul Klee. The largest Klee exhibit ever to be shown in the U.S. was in Portland, Ore., on the second lap of a transcontinental tour. At the San Francisco Museum of Art it had broken attendance records for the year...