Word: exhibitionisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Pirouetting through a flashing freestyle skating exhibition, New York City's pert Carol Heiss, 18, came so close to graceful perfection that she made fans of the judges clustered around the rink at Paris' packed Palais des Sports, easily won the women's world figure-skating...
Today, amid new awareness that gardens form an integral part of architecture, the influence of Japanese garden design is growing. The 1954 exhibition of a Japanese house and garden at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art still holds the record as the museum's most heavily attended architectural...
Behind the scenes, the Churchill exhibition had set off a seething debate among museum directors. The issues: Is Churchill's artwork worthy of a place in first-rank museums? Or should museums show it as a part of history? Or to increase public interest in art? Or to encourage...
A Hoax? The very origins of the show had one museum director crying that it was a "public-relations hoax." Sponsor of the show is Kansas City's Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill...
Perhaps the strongest voice on the pro-Churchill side was that of James Rorimer. director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who broke his museum's general policy against one-man shows to schedule the exhibition. Writes Rorimer in his museum bulletin: "Think how eager we would...