Word: museum
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...whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground of the old Warsaw Ghetto...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...
Pontifell uses only 100 percent rag paper, which he says feels something like linen. He binds many of his editions in Moroccan calfskin with gilt tooling, and this year acquired an old press from the Boston Museum of Printing...
SIGMAR POLKE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first major North American survey of a restlessly eclectic German artist, 49, whose work ranges from Pop-related imagery through psychedelic fantasy. Polke's recent "alchemical" works incorporate materials (silver oxide, sealing wax, even rat poison) that change color and texture as climatic conditions vary. Through...
LILLA CABOT PERRY: AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Through her friendship with Monet, Perry (1848-1933), a wellborn Bostonian, wife and mother of three, became a pioneering exponent of Impressionism in the U.S. This handsome exhibition aims to restore her once eminent reputation. Through...