Word: wadsworth
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Both Dalis--the disruptive youthful genius and the pretentious, whorish old fanatic--are on full view at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., in a show of some 70 works titled "Dali's Optical Illusions." Its organizer, Dawn Ades, is one of the most distinguished historians of surrealism, the movement to which Dali's work was central. She has done an excellent job of showing and analyzing the ways in which illusion, the act of making marks that get read as "real," acts in his painting. No illusion, no Dali. This isn't true of other surrealists, or painters...
...mysterious inhabitant of Wadsworth House, the yellow building across from Au Bon Pain and next to Wigglesworth Hall, Hunt is known to many students simply as the man who helps organize Commencement in June...
...domestic disturbance was reported near Wadsworth House. Back-up units assisted in restoring the peace...