Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with them long-term ecological consequences which are distinctly harmful. We must make sure, therefore, that our concern with the environment will keep pace with our technical capabilities. Human activities -whether by neglect or by accident or by intent-are constantly damaging the environment: Lake Erie might be called exhibit A; the Santa Barbara oil disaster, exhibit B; and there are many more examples. In addition, subtle changes are taking place in our atmosphere and oceans-with far-reaching but little-understood effects; e.g., on the Earth's climate. Solutions to these questions demand the best efforts of scientists...
...feelings of bitterness between blacks and Jews were suddenly becoming vividly expressed. The incident followed a period of eight months of almost constant conflict between the United Federation of Teachers and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community. Soon afterwards the Metropolitan Museum's catalogue for its Harlem On My Mind exhibit was forced off the stands because of an allegedly anti-Semitic portion of its introduction written by a black high school student. "All this has left a very bad taste here in New York," City Council president Francis X. Smith said yesterday--"a substantial residue of ill will...
...HELP but be fascinated with technology's introduction into the museum, especially because it goes beyond mere gimmickry. The thirties room is the finest example of the exhibit's eclectic approach. Most of the pictures are blown-up and attached to sprawling cubes or precarious towers. The result is threatening and chaotic. Similarly, as we enter the fifties, we are forced to trudge slowly in a narrow queue. It is all more than a game. It is participation in a way of life...
...entrance to the exhibit closely parallels the catalogue introduction. Huge interior photographs of Winthrop's New York apartment are displayed--the beautiful objects of his collection crowded into their original setting. Glass cases across from these photographs hold his undergraduate notebooks, a Christmas card from his art dealer, a letter to the National Gallery explaining why Winthrop was choosing to give his collection to Harvard instead of to it, and a bronze portrait of him executed by his daughter...
...exhibit contains more objects--and more diverse ones--than I could possibly mention. There are wedgewood pieces, ceramics, and clocks -- among the objects that most people enjoy least in museums. But it is wonderful to think about all of these things really belonging to one strange lonely man, drawings, clocks, bronzes and all. This show certainly makes one think of Winthrop, and look at the collection with a feeling for him, in his house, looking at them. I can just see him in front of one of his lovely clocks, trying to decide whether to set the alarm...