Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deceived by the sexy name: "Chaste, Chased, and Chastened," the latest exhibit at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, focuses on an esoteric, but intriguing, historical phenomenon. Subtitled "Old Testament Women in Northern Prints," the exhibit demonstrates how a social and cultural revolution necessitated a revolution in imagery--how a fledgling society needed to visualize the new roles it had created...
...unusual for its thematic organization. Through her graduate research of Rennasaince prints, Dackerman discovered a surprising increase in prints depicting Old Testament stories. Once Dackerman realized that this Old Testament emphasis coincided with the Protestant Reformation's destruction of Catholic art, she had the makings of an interesting historical exhibit...
...still shows traces of the old renegade Fox, the Network Without Adult Supervision. For one thing, Fox programmers pay little heed to the usual seasonal demarcation lines: to get a jump on the competition, three fall newcomers are being introduced before Labor Day. And some of them, at least, exhibit the in-your-face bluster that only Fox can get away with. Sometimes...
...issue of June 21, we published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the world, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were...
...national press turned out in full, sardonic force for the opening of the Quayle museum, a sweet, rinky-dink exhibit on the ground floor of an 80- year-old neoclassical building on Warren Street, catty-corner to Dan's old school. The networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker -- the very doyens of the cultural elite that Quayle infamously criticized -- had come to give Danny one last kick. A local woman, who had brought her four-year-old to see the exhibit, fled when she was surrounded by reporters pushily quizzing a real, live person...