Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is the essence of the modern city? A recently opened exhibit at the Fogg Museum of Art, Imagery of the Modern Metropolis, focuses on this very theme, assessing the impact of urban life on the modern consciousness...
...exhibit offers a variety of perspectives on the city and its inhabitants. The works are arranged topically, in categories such as: views, animation and energy, mood and history. This arrangement succeeds admirably in the difficult task of unifying an exhibit which includes artists of very different periods, outlooks and media. Ranging from European to American artists, Renaissance to modern works, the show includes such notable pieces as a 15th-century German Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Canaletto's Imaginary View of Padua and Joseph Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge...
...exhibit, organized by John Czaplicka, assistant professor of fine arts, accompanies a course offered this spring term. It aims at tracing the evolving conceptions of the metropolis, through the eyes of individual artists who depict its effects upon the inhabitants. The fantastic medley of ideas and experiences present in any modern urban center is reflected in their artistic product and in the show as a whole...
...Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Dial; $12.95). Ivan is that classic Russian archetype, the wise idiot. When he catches a talking pike, it strikes a bargain: if Ivan casts it back into the icy water, his every wish will be granted. The result is riches, fame -- and problems. Gennady Spirin's paintings exhibit the palette of Russian icons and the surreal quality of Bruegel landscapes...
LUTHER Campbell of 2 Live Crew was busted in Florida. A Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit was shut down in Ohio. Flag-burners were arrested in Texas. But while free expression is under attack across the nation, three laudable judicial and legislative decisions close to home indicate that the First Amendment is alive and well and living in Massachusetts...