Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enter the most recent wing of the Fogg Art Museum, you will be struck by the first exhibit on display: the bust of Saint Jerome, the third century Italian translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate. Stained with the terrible anguish that comes with the recognition of the sin of intellectual pride, Saint Jerome's eyes are closed, yet you can tell that they are full of the sorrow and contrition that only a sincerely devout human being can experience. Browsing through the corpulent volume entitled "Bernini" that is conveniently provided at the front of the exhibit, you will...
...inauguration of the exhibit Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, in a permanent collection gallery of the Fogg Art Museum celebrates the quartercentenary of Bernini's birth. The works on display are studies for some of Bernini's most important projects, including the design for the sculptural decoration for the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the Tiber River bridge for pilgrims approaching St. Peter's Basilica and the architectural and sculptural setting for the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa...
What gives the exhibit its overwhelming character is the range and fecundity of Picasso's talent--the flashes of demonic restlessness, the heights of confidence and depths of insecurity, the relationships to the art of the past, the sustained intensity of feeling. "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective" contains good paintings and bad, some so weak that they look like forgeries, as well as works of art for which the word masterpiece--exiled for the crime of elitism over the past decade--must now be reinstated...
...misunderstandings. First, the Art Museums did not acquire an Anglo-Roman head. Rather, we borrowed one from a private collector who has promised to give the head to the British Museum at or before his death. For this reason, we received the approval of the British Museum before exhibiting the work. The British Museum did not object to our exhibit. Second, we did not exhibit works from dealers in our exhibitions of large-scale Roman bronzes and Greek vase fragments. All loans to these exhibitions came from private or public collections. JAMES CUNO...
...Exhibit A is Udolf, a career federal prosecutor in the Justice Department's Miami office on loan to Starr in Washington. It was Udolf who helped negotiate the immunity deal with Monica Lewinsky that Starr has backed away from. But it was Udolf's role in a 1987 Georgia case that had Starr's office in confusion last week. In that case, he was found to have violated a defendant's civil rights when he was Georgia state prosecutor. The defendant, Ronald Reeves, was arrested on a weapons offense, held for several days in jail without being charged...