Word: exhibit
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...Cornell students had protested that school administration's response to the vandalism of a Hispanic art exhibit...
...Cornell-sponsored art exhibit featuring a multi-paneled work titled "The Castle is Burning" was torn apart and defaced with swastikas by vandals on Nov. 19, Cornell student John Guzman told The Boston Globe...
Richard Garcia '94, president of Raza, said the Hispanic students at Cornell were "angered" by the Cornell administration's reaction to the vandalism of the exhibit...
...adding both context and detail to that story let me admit that I am a friend of the museum: I have chaired committees for two of the museum's most splendid exhibitions ("Judaica from the Vatican Library" and "The Silver Calf from Ashkelon") and was a member of the committee for a third ("The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations"). I acquired for the museum the photographs by the rediscovered 19th century photographer M.J. Diness now on exhibit until December 18. My bias for these undertakings notwithstanding, the facts are the facts...
Save for the Silver Calf exhibit, which presented discoveries from Stager's dig in Israel, the director of the museum has not been involved in the museum's activities. Staff members hardly remember staff meetings. The ongoing public life of the Semitic Museum was mainly the achievement of Father Carney Gavin, its chief curator, and of his coworkers...