Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current exhibit consists almost exclusively of works from the V.W. van Gogh Collection at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam; this country has seen few of them except in reproduction. Drawings constitute close to one half of the show. It was with drawings that Vincent started his career: they are tremendously powerful, he employs the same angular lines as in his paintings, and his later sketches achieve the same movement. But color is van Gogh's true medium...
Running interference for New York's usually self-sufficient Robert Moses, Francis Cardinal Spellman raised in a private audience with Pope John XXIII the matter of the Vatican Pavilion exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Result: the pavilion's attractions will include Michelangelo's only signed work, the moving Pieta, which has long graced the first chapel of St. Peter's Basilica and has never before in its 463-year history been out of the Vatican...
...last week's Massachusetts show, compactness was the key word. Small gardens that take less money and less work were featured. Harvard's Arnold Arboretum brought in an educational exhibit of miniature evergreens and shrubs; on view were dwarf pines, holly, juniper, azaleas, rhododendrons, all of which have been trained to grow slowly and lowly. But some old favorites were holding their own nicely. Said George Taloumias. Horticultural Society spokesman: "African violets are still the No. 1 house plant, as far as I can make...
...traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco's Museum of Art last week the show had a unique and poignant meaning. One room contained a separate exhibit of more than 75 items, ranging from oils to tiles, that were also mostly by Matisse. Though now owned by many collectors, these treasures were once a part of one of the earliest and most significant collections of 20th century art. They belonged to San Francisco's Michael and Sarah Stein (brother...
...conviction can emerge easily as prissiness, and its ruler, destiny, as mere farce. The principals last night did capture the opera's ideals; the chorus gave adequate support to the venture, the orchestra little; and the forces of destiny did not even pretend to their powers, nor did they exhibit that of singing ability...