Word: exhibit
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...seem a perfectly apt tribute to the inventor of psychoanalysis. But three years ago it appeared in danger of never opening at all. A band of scholars objected that the exhibit, though still being assembled, would be a fawning tribute to a figure who was outdated at best, a dishonest quack at worst. Library officials, stunned to find themselves thrust into a battle they were not prepared for, postponed the show, claiming lack of funds. Yet now the exhibit is about to open with hardly a peep. What happened...
...word of the Freud exhibit began to emerge in 1995, one combative anti-Freudian, Peter Swales, a media-savvy Freud scholar and former "business assistant" to the Rolling Stones, charged that the advisory counsel was stacked in favor of the Freudians. He circulated a petition, signed by 50 academics, requesting representation of the "full spectrum of informed opinion" on Freud. Curator Michael Roth, while insisting that he had consulted with a range of scholars from the outset, responded by adding two Freud critics to the advisory panel, even as he questioned the motives of some of the protesters...
Culture yourself by taking a brisk walk over to the Carpenter Center to see the VES Visiting. Faculty Art Exhibition. Works from highlighting video instillation queen Joan Jonas, Susan Meiselas's photographs of carnival stripers and Sheldon Cohen's bewitching animation make this exhibit home of the real flame of creativity at Harvard. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 24 Quincy Street. 495-3251. FREE...
...kingdom Fine Art Gallery this month is an exciting exhibit featuring paintings, sculpture and mixed media works by some people you may have heard of and others you will pretend to have heard of. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., 153 Mass Ave. 266-1997. FREE...
...want you to meet a fish," Earle says to me. Without a submersible handy, we take the easy way and visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, directed by marine biologist Julie Packard. Her Deepness takes to the place like a five-year-old. She leads me from exhibit to exhibit, dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal...