Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Changes were made in the past," said Williams, "without long-range planning. If research space was needed, we took some space from an exhibit...
Despite their casualness, such preliminary sketches are beginning to be seen more and more in U.S. museums and galleries. In 1967, an exhibit of 79 oil sketches, organized by Columbia University's Rudolf Wittkower, made a brief but much applauded appearance at Manhattan's Knoedler's Galleries. Next week, a collection of 60 sketches assembled by the Salzburg Dealer-Scholar Kurt Rossacher goes on view in Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery, and will subsequently be seen in Toledo, Providence and Minneapolis...
Inner Freedom. The Rossacher collection, while lacking the variety and consistent excellence of the Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
...climb up on the examining table by themselves ("The kids loved it"). But Michael feels that the main thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks...
...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...