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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ansel Adams: The Early Years--an exhibition covering Adams' work from the 1920s to 1940s. At the Museum of Fine Arts at 465 Huntington Ave. in Boston until Dec. 29. Call 267-9300, ext. 446. A Commonwealth to Keep photo exhibit--on display through Friday at Doric Hall in the State House...
Similar protests have been percolating, or even boiling, for some time. When it opened at the University of Florida's Museum of Natural History two years ago, an exhibit called "First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States 1492-1570" drew spirited opposition from Native American activists, including Russell Means of the American Indian Movement. "Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent!" yelled demonstrators. COLUMBUS MURDERED A CONTINENT read one of the placards. Last July a group of protesters dressed as South American Indians appeared unannounced in Spain, wearing loincloths, their faces and bodies painted...
...wider understanding of this transfer of knowledge from the New World to the Old should by fostered by the Smithsonian Institution's "Seeds of Change," the largest exhibition ever mounted at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Opening Oct. 12 and running through April 1993, the Smithsonian exhibit sets forth five "natural" elements -- sugar, disease, maize, the potato and the horse -- the exchange of which has profoundly altered both the New and Old Worlds in the 500 years since Columbus' first voyage...
...This exhibition is not only part of our welcome to Neil and Angelica Rudenstine, it also reaffirms the Harvard University Art Museums' commitment to showing contemporary art," said James Cuno, the organizer of the exhibit...
...exhibit focused on tradition, it is significant that the accompanying problem of authorship--the assertion of a particular artist's role--is rarely acknowledged. The works in the show are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, a period which spans 400 years. And the artists often allude to masters from even earlier centuries. The heritage presented is extraordinarily unified, and, to the Western mind set, has peculiar implications on the artist's creative role. The exhibit would be more satisfying if it directly addressed the social bases for such a convention-based aesthetic...