Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness, the intriguing lunatic gesture? Eisenman...
Wilder's ascension inevitably prompted journalists to dust off their favorite Virginia cliches ranging from "Capital of the Confederacy" to political scientist V.O. Key's 1949 description of the state's old-family oligarchy as a "political museum piece." But, in truth, Virginia has changed almost beyond recognition in the past 20 years. A booming urban corridor, which includes two-thirds of the state's voters, curves south from the Washington suburbs of northern Virginia, crosses Richmond and heads east to the bustling Tidewater area around Norfolk. Although no Democratic presidential contender has carried Virginia since Lyndon Johnson...
...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends, the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
...panel of four conservationists mediated by Richard D. Estes, associate in mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the plight of the African elephant and debated how best to combat its decline...
FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated, sometimes silently screaming figures. Through...