Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Women and Power: An Exhibit--ThroughMarch 27. Bunting Institute...
...museums, get on Poplar Avenue and head toward the Pink Palace Museum--one of the few museums in the world that still has lots of buttons to PUSH. If you visit in late spring, they'll have much-hyped Etruscan exhibit. If not, stop by on a weekend and see the miniature circus...
...This exhibit not so much answers these questions as it provides an accessible and viable means to address these and countless other issues about Fifth Century Athens and Greece. Gregory Crane, Associate Professor of Classics, has organized the two-room exhibit of ancient pots, coins, weapons and everyday objects with one very non-ancient device: Perseus, a computer database that sits calmly in the form of two Macintoshes beside the exhibited objects in the galleries...
...between, one can read about the Athens-Sprat relationship, from alliance to confrontation; of shifts in the social and political structures through the period; and about gender relations and attitudes toward the ancient Greek family. Again, the overall effect is to flesh out the exhibit and provoke the viewer to thought and synthesis...
...addition to marking a shift in academic approaches, the integration of Perseus into the Fogg also indicates an increasing centrality for computers in Harvard museums. The Social Context of Greek Art marks the first time the Fogg has used computers in an exhibit. According to University Art Museums Deputy Director Frances A. Beane, it is "an innovation whose time has come," and it has met with no resistance from the Fogg...