Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCA-COLA. In this delightful walk-through exhibit, Coke turns up in the darnedest places: hidden in a Hong Kong fish market, along the Taj Mahal's jasmine-scented promenade, tucked in a Bavarian snowbank, cooling in a Cambodian rain forest, or gracing the captain's table on a cruise ship...
...doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL. There are several movies in this building, but the one to catch is From Here to There, a short short created by Saul Bass for the United Airlines exhibit. It shows the unique view of the earth that the airplane affords...
...homely personal history also stuck to the brushes of the portrait painters, but the daguerreotype and the photograph in the end reduced this broad popular stream of American art to a trickle. The rise and decline of portraiture is the most striking theme of a World's Fair exhibit called "Four Centuries of American Masterpieces" (see opposite page) and housed in the Better Living Center...
Culture Conscious. Johnson's Wax has more than prosperity; it has culture. It has spent more than $750,000 to assemble and to exhibit its "Art: U.S.A.: Now" collection, which features 102 contemporary American paintings. The firm has also invested $3,000,000 in one of the least commercial and most appealing exhibits at the New York World's Fair...