Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th- and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
...many critics of the recovered-memory movement, the accusations and convictions are reminiscent of the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which elderly women and an occasional man were condemned to death, often on the basis of a single unsubstantiated charge that they had demonstrated witchlike behavior...
Disputes between architects and curators arose frequently during construction. One of the worst involved the wall colors in the exhibition space for Northern European 17th century paintings. Pei wanted beige or off- white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...
...display are medieval French ivories, enamels and goldwork; 10th to 14th century Islamic ceramics, arms and copperware; and Italian Renaissance sculpture, including Andrea Della Robbia's Virgin and Child and Mino da Fiesole's bust, St. John the Baptist. Seven of the rooms are devoted to painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun and Jouvenet, as well as Golden Age Dutch and Flemish canvases by Rubens, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Ter Borch and Jan Brueghel. A research facility is available for the study of 8,000 Italian, French, German and Flemish engravings and drawings that span the past four centuries...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook. The Red Shoes is so closely based on the 1948 ballet film that it uses footage from it as the basis of TV ads. Cyrano the Musical, an import from Amsterdam, retells a much told romance, written in the 19th century and set in the 17th. Disney's Beauty and the Beast will transpose to the stage the hit songs and scenic devices of the 1991 animated film, itself based on a venerable fairy tale. If art is supposed to be relevant, Broadway is missing the message. And if art is an escapist time machine, Broadway...