Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sociedad de Arte Moderno had lovingly collected 330 examples of native Mexican sculpture, mounted them in a dazzling exhibit. The show was loosely called Mascaras Mexicanas (Mexican Masks) - but along with the religious, ceremonial and dance masks was a colorful assortment of sculptured heads originally designed as decorations for jewelry, pot tery, architecture...
...Some exhibit highlights from the work of a few of the 165-odd Indian tribes who had a fairly complex civilization when Cortes came to disturb them...
Bringing its exhibit up to the 20th Century, the Sociedad also showed a modern Indian dance mask fashioned of straw, bits of mirror ?nd shiny human teeth (see cut). But in the main, there was not much effort to place works in their exact historical niches. Even the archeologists avoid references to epochs: they merely speak of four vague "cultural horizons...
...annual exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the oldest U.S. show, put on by the nation's oldest art school*-and more often than not it is the stiffest, stuffiest major art show in the U.S. Its Temple Medal (no cash) is the second most important U.S. art prize (first: Carnegie Institute's annual $1,000 award...
Outstanding among the books of the Paris exhibit is the "Cabinet du Rol," printed in the seventeenth century at the order of Louis XIV. These elaborate folios are a vivid record of the festivals, tournaments and state entries into the capital. The University possesses one of the few complete sets...