Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) rejected a grant for an exhibit at the Institute for Contemporary Art, which had recently displayed photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, prompting charges from the museum that the NEA caved in to political pressure...
...chair John E. Frohnmayer told Ross yesterday that he was rejecting a $40,000 grant to fund an exhibit by Los Angeles mixed-media artist Mike Kelley. The grant had been approved by an NEA selection panel...
...Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours is an arresting exhibit, interesting for its unique context, as well as the quality of the artwork shown. The collection of drawings, in pastel, watercolor and pencil, was assembled by Le Corbusier himself with the goal of representing the breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education...
WOUNDED KNEE: LEST WE FORGET, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo. One hundred years after the army massacred more than 145 Sioux at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., an exhibit of photo murals, weaponry and Ghost Dance garments illuminates the tribe's life and religion in the late 19th century and the reasons behind the killings. Through...
...Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace...