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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700 B.C. to 1800 A.D." Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art" (700 B.C. to 1800 B.C. to 1800 A.D.) opens Wednesday. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold. "18th Century New England Embroideries" will remain on display in Gallery D 21, as will "20th Century Prints by Contemporary Artists" in the Hemicycle and "English and French Watercolors" in the Watercolor Corridor. A display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from...
...business pages. At midweek Cities Service won an Interior Department contract to extract, process and sell to the U.S. up to $9.1 million a year worth of helium, production of which the Government previously monopolized. Next day Watson announced plans for a $108 million stock swap to acquire Columbian Carbon Co., an $80 million-a-year producer of carbon black, ink and pigments.Both moves were part of Watson's strategy to hedge Cities Service's bet in the slipping oil industry by expanding in related fields...
...names, the Frank Perls Gallery in Beverly Hills was selling a $30 Picasso ceramic ashtray. A somewhat older artifact - an Egyptian cosmetic palette from 3000 B.C. - was available for $280 at Manhattan's Komor Gallery. And the nearby Judith Small Gallery offered a large array of pre-Columbian sculpture, including, at $100, some Mexican fertility figures so tiny that 50 would fit in a Christmas stocking...
...latest wrinkle in the trade was all but inevitable. With everyone scrambling for pre-Columbian art, local Indians have learned to copy the originals handed to them by dealers, are selling fakes to gullible tourists as fast as they can make them. And some are so well done that even the art dealers get clipped on an occasional imitation Mayan...