Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Detroit Visitors to the annual auto show at New York City's Coliseum last week gazed with longing at expensive sports cars and custom-stretched limousines. But a real hit of the extravaganza was the new minivans that are now rushing onto American highways. At the Chrysler display, people bounced up and down in the driver's seat and clambered around the interior. Said Edward Thomas from Matawan, N.J., a prospective purchaser: "It's a very practical vehicle and more fashionable than a regular-size van." Car buyers around the U.S. agree. Introduced barely six weeks...
...still growing interest in art and culture, but also because of a growing need to experience a sense of community. Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes' Dallas Museum of Art, which opened to the public last week, is the latest and most successful example of integrating community activities with the display of objects. European museums, like Paris' Louvre, originated with royal collections. In America, the old Ecole des Beaux-Arts temples were usually built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City...
Some of the buildings were ego trips that overpowered the art they were to shelter and display, among them Frank Lloyd Wright's dizzying Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Marcel Breuer's brutal Whitney Museum of American Art (1966), both in New York City. Philip Johnson's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (1963) returned to a somewhat saccharine classicism. But the one museum of that hectic period that seemed to work best for the display of art was Barnes' Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1971). Its architectural form is not particularly...
...fiery mishap renews concerns about safety The elaborate $1.5 million commercial for Pepsi-Cola was being taped in front of 3,000 fans at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Four times Singer Michael Jackson glided down a staircase toward Jermaine and his three other brothers as a pyrotechnic display was set off behind them...
Three 18th-and 19th-century Oriental art objects on exhibit at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) were broken Monday night when the display case was some-how moved...