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...exhibit showcases works of many different media, including photography, painting, sculpture and mixed-media constructions. The pieces focus on various themes, with two in particular prominence: society's unrealistic expectations of women and the escalation of the AIDS crisis, especially in the artistic community...
...Building a Collection" is an important exhibit for the Museum of Fine Arts. As Trevor Fairbrother, Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA, said, "The permanent collection [of contemporary art] has never been featured on this scale before." Indeed, the current show in conjunction with "Building a Collection: Part II," which opens in late February, gives the viewing public an opportunity to see what artists are producing today as well as what the Museum is currently collecting...
...became prototypical hepcat mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that he looked, on the bandstand, as if he were on exhibit in an aquarium...
...enough that Bush signalled that shadow governments are acceptable and the separation of powers meaningless by cooperating in the Iran-contra cover-up. He didn't even exhibit a shred of courage by admitting that what Weinberger and the others did was wrong, but that he had chosen to pardon them anyway...
...reason is that The Greek Miracle is an exercise in political propaganda, and has to embrace stereotypes that no classicist today would accept without deep reservations. First, the exhibit wants to indicate how Greek sculpture changed in the classical period, by showing its movement from the frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples...