Word: exhibitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the auction, thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, strolled through the exhibition rooms to see the collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main...
Pompeii, the Buried City--At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The definitive exhibition of the ill-fated city. Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Freebie City.
The exhibition contains some sharp reminders of cultural relativity. Since the Japanese were more insular than any other advanced culture, East or West, foreigners were objects of intense curiosity to them. The Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries whose caravels found their way to Japan in the 16th century were known...
The life of an artist, says Robert De Niro, is "a very show-bizzy thing. You're up and you're down." The speaker is not the actor but his father, who studied with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers and "flirted with abstract expressionism briefly in the 1940s...
The exhibition includes several famous works: "Equinoxe," the 1968 "Le Grand Sorcier," "Le Penseir Puisant," and two comparatively recent pieces, "Maja Negra" and "Le Sarrazin a I'Eoile Bleu," where Miro has added details by scratching into the paper with his fingernail, exposing the paper.