Word: metropolitan
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...limited season of varied and offbeat repertory, using its midsize (2,000 seats) theater as well as the more intimate (900 seats) Majestic a few blocks away. BAM officials like to boast that their house has actually been staging opera since 1861, more than two decades before the mighty Metropolitan Opera was born. But in fact the whole place nearly died during the 1950s. Its revival in recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams, in its annual Next Wave Festival of avant...
...Goya's work, but the next best thing may be the exhibition "Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment," which was shown at the Prado in Madrid last fall, opened last week at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and will be seen from May 9 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Organized by Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez, director of the Prado, and Eleanor A. Sayre, the eminent Goya scholar who is curator emeritus of drawings, prints and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, the show is a curatorial masterpiece. Its catalog, with essays...
PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The ^ gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer respite from the brutish reality of modern life. Through March...
PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer a respite from the brutish realities of modern life. Through March...
WEAKEST TAKEOVER DEFENSE Pillsbury's "just say no" strategy failed to fend off British consumer-products giant Grand Metropolitan. The Dough Boys also tried a "poison pill" strategy that would have awarded current stockholders a larger share of the company, making it far more expensive to purchase. But a Delaware chancery court ruled against Pillsbury's tactic, and it was gobbled up last week for $5.C5 billion...