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...first isn't always best. The history of American art abounds in artists who developed late and did their best work long after the movements they were first associated with had lost their impetus. Stuart Davis, for instance, was a far better painter in the 1930s than in the 1920s. The full unfolding of Robert Motherwell's talent, particularly in collage, happened after the prime years of Abstract Expressionism, and the same is true of Lee Krasner. (Not that it matters to this show, which includes neither of them...
Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...
Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...
...historian knows that crime waves, in fact, are cyclical. Earlier ones occurred in the 1830s, the late 1860s and the 1920s. The question is, What causes the cycles, and what affects their timing? Crime was abnormally low in the 1940s and 1950s and began to rise around 1963 and peaked in the late 1970s. The increase in crime from 1963 to 1980 was enormous -- and it occurred in a period of general prosperity. Part of the explanation is that the population got younger, because of the baby boom -- and younger men are more likely to commit crime than older ones...
...object of adoration is another man's prey. Whaling began centuries ago, spurred by the human need for whale meat and oils. The development of efficient "factory ships" in the 1920s almost wiped out the leviathans, leading ultimately to formation of the IWC in 1946. The commission tried for more than three decades to protect selected species before it finally decided that a total ban on commercial whaling was necessary...