Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flags fluttered in the breeze from the top of 26-ft.-high wooden arches set incongruously near downtown San Francisco, Chicago and New York. The arches have been beckoning passers-by to the first traveling trade show of the People's Republic of China in the U.S. The exhibit opened last week in Manhattan for the capstone stop of its tour. Now that dancers, diplomats and musicians have exchanged visits, China and the U.S. are getting close-up looks at each other's products at trade fairs in the two countries...
...billion to China. In contrast, American exports to Taiwan, which is about one-fiftieth the size of China, amounted to $3 billion in just the first eight months of this year. While businessmen and bureaucrats have been eying products and exchanging visiting cards at the shows, the traveling exhibit has so far resulted in disappointingly low sales...
...virtually everything. Recent articles have scoffed at equal opportunity laws, asked why sex education, but not prayer, is allowed in public schools, urged the Republican Party to stand by its tough campaign plank on judicial appointments. Though N.R. is hardly one of the handsomest magazines around, it does exhibit a rare appreciation for the power and variety of language. As Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I have spent many happy hours in my favorite chair, National Review in one hand, the dictionary in the other...
...EXHIBIT also fails to point out the relevance of showing Dada art in 1980. While museums commonly exhibit works from past periods without making historical connections, the situation here is different. The status of an institution of contemporary art that chooses to exhibit works that are now 60 years old is somewhat questionable; some reference to recent work would have proved that the spirit of Dadaism guides and inspires many contemporary artists...
Dada was outburst and outrage. It shook the cultural world, and its repercussions are still being felt. Some mention of contemporary endeavors would have rendered the material in the ICA show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...