Word: exhibitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As museums become more dependent on corporate funding, this drift away from serious, intelligent exhibition toward spectacle will increase. There will be much more wrapping for mass appeal, in the form of Tut-style blockbusters and Pompeian frolics. Meanwhile, the proper functions of the museum will receive proportionately less support...
When David Smith was killed in a car accident near Bennington, Vt., in 1965, America lost the best sculptor it had ever produced. In a quarter-century of work, Smith had taken the constructivist tradition of sculpture-images built up from rigid planes-from where Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez...
The Theatre of Samuel Beckett in the Seventies Exhibition at Pusey Library through December
The exhibition isn't only photos, and clearly not all the photos are of Beckett. There are some very good stills from his plays, which make for more revealing and impressive stills than most. Take a look.
Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle...