Word: exhibitions
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...what does it mean today to call photojournalism an art? An iconoclastic exhibition now touring the country composes its answer out of 120 prints by twelve photographers, all of them affiliated with photo agencies that distribute their work to magazines and newspapers. "On the Line: The New Color Photojournalism" originated earlier this year at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. This week it will complete a stop at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Me. From there it will travel over the next two years to Chapel Hill, N.C., Lawrence, Kans., Austin, Pittsburgh, Aspen, Colo., and Toledo. Adam...
...Semitic museum has also prepared a look at Lowell's attempts to impose a quota on the number of Jews accepted at Harvard, which will be displayed during the 350th. Citing that exhibit, former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky says it would be untrue to say that Harvard has attempted to hide its history for the celebration...
...Radcliffe festivities will involve six symposia, three performances and three exhibits. The events range from a poetry reading by four women poets to a dance performance by a Baroque and a collection of photographs of Black women, the Radcliffe Centennial Exhibit, and Women at Harvard 1636-1936. All the events "will emphasize women's roles in scholarship, international affairs and the arts," said Press...
...political current --generally of a milky, liberal kind--surfaces in Rosenquist's work. It produced a number of bland icons but one real masterpiece as well: F-111, 1965, the 86-ft.-long, multipanel anti-Viet Nam mural that caused a hullabaloo when the Metropolitan Museum chose to exhibit it in the '60s. Unlike most political art of the time, it looks unpolemical at first, and that is the source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence. The impact of its neon colors and yowling discharge of images...
...terms of the exchange requested that the art be displayed in academic settings, and that it be accompanied by some kind of symposia, Bennett said. Harvard plans a one-day symposium relating other Russian arts to the exhibit to enable people "look at the art in as informed and intelligent a way as possible," Nisbet said...