Word: exhibit
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...Fisher. The artist, who is a student at the School of Public Health, charged House officials with homophobia and discrimination. He told The Crimson he resented having Fisher and Dudley House Artist-in-Residence Ivonne A-Baki choose which of his photographs could be displayed in a two-week exhibit at the House...
What the House Master did demand, however, was that certain particularly graphic works be taken down after the reception, and that these works--a mere fraction of the exhibit--not be displayed with the rest for the next two weeks in the House Mezzanine area...
...world's most torturous-looking chair, the Sackler's new show, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, provides no answers. It does, however, remind us that Harvard's museums are more than a place to temporarily dispose of loved ones when Parent's Weekend begins to pall. The exhibit raises a labyrinth of confounding problems that transcend the hothouse world of museums to intrude on our faith in the definition of American culture...
...exhibit presents a startling variety of works considered "American." It opens with three objects representing at first glance Native American, European and African-American cultural heritage: a contemporary sculpture by Creek Indian artist Joseph Johns, Gilbert Stuart's iconized portrait of George Washington, and a rubbing from a Cambridge Cemetery gravestone which reads, "Cicely, Negro, Late Servant to Ye Revd. Mr. William Brattle...
Rothko's "Untitled (Blue, Green)," Whistler's "Nocturne in Blue and Silver, No. 1," and Feininger's "Bird Cloud" are tucked in a pristine white oasis at the heart of the exhibition. They are presented like a stage set depicting display techniques in a modern museum. The paintings, all modern and somewhat abstract in tones of blue, crystallize the value of Cultures and Contexts. They are presented on white walls without the helpful explanations, without accompanying cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity...