Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
Last week, from the evidence of the De Gustibus show, it appeared that popular art appreciation in the U.S. was lagging about 60 years behind contemporary U.S. artists. Visitors to the exhibit picked William M. Harnett's morning-clear still life, Old Models (1892), as their favorite painting in the show, and gave second place to Thomas Hovenden's Breaking the Home Ties (1890), a teary scene of family parting complete with sad-eyed Rover. The 1890s were voted the favorite decade, the 1880s next, and the 1930s (where the modernist vote was massed) third...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades...
...Exhibit A. In Chicago, Mr. & Mrs. Donald Boerst, a separated couple, were reconciled briefly when the judge arranged a night-out for them, immediately wrangled again over where they should spend the evening...
Since December, Kuhn has been making visits to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and the Fogg Museum to borrow items for his rennovated exhibit. "I found the museums, especially Fogg, tremendously cooperative," Kuhn said, "and the exhibition which we finished preparing last week will be more or less permanent...