Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai is promising miracles: sounder money, but lower taxes; bigger federal spending, but a balanced budget; stronger defense, but end the draft. Barnum would exhibit him as the original magician if only Barnum were alive...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...Cincinnati's museum discovered, such bargain art sells right off the walls. During its seven-week exhibit, more than 300 lithographs were sold. Most popular: Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal...
Another outstanding first contributor to the new college was the famed circus owner, P.T. Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest elephant in captivity, Jumbo, was tragically killed by a railroad train. As usual, Barnum promised the elephant's hide to Tufts. But first he took it on a tour of Europe, where twice as many people paid to see Jumbo stuffed (as compared to his earnings when he was alive...
...lesser culture, that of the primitive peoples in the little-explored state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific watershed, is a new favorite among collectors. On show this week at Manhattan's André Emmerich gallery was the first exhibit of art objects from the Mezcala River basin. So little regarded that until a few years ago they could be bought for as little as $15, choice examples now bring up to $500 and over...