Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schlesinger Library is now running an exhibit on the impact that Roosevelt's life has had on women of the twentieth century...
...rare exhibit of primitive carvings comes...
When the visitors from New Zealand reached the museum entrance, they touched noses, Maori-style, with their waiting American hosts. These included J. Richardson Dilworth, the Metropolitan's chairman, and officials of the American Federation of Arts, which organized the exhibit of Maori sculpture, and the Mobil Corp.. which helped pay for it. The ceremony ended with a tour of the show by tribesmen, who paused and prayed before each major piece of sculpture and offered incantations...
...ritual was not a photo opportunity staged for the occasion. It was required, said Maori leaders, to lift the tapu, or religious restrictions, from the exhibit's 174 pieces, which the New Zealanders believe are imbued with the living spirits of their ancestors. After the Metropolitan show closes Jan. 6, Maori leaders will travel abroad once more to conduct tapu-lifting rites when the exhibit opens at the St. Louis Art Museum in February and the M.H, de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in July...
...widely scattered New Zealand museums that hold individual pieces in trust for their Maori owners. The decade-long effort by the museum's chairman of primitive art, Douglas Newton, to bring the work to the U.S. was conspicuously worthwhile. For Americans, a walk through the Metropolitan's exhibit is a voyage of discovery, as astonishing as the sight of Maori art must have been in 1769, when Captain James Cook's Endeavour first touched New Zealand's shore. When the ship's artist, Sydney Parkinson, went inland, he marveled at the Maoris' "particular taste...