Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several pieces in a 1996 exhibit, "Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections," and Greek vase fragments in a 1995 exhibit are undocumented, and came from dealers who have previously traded in objects illegally excavated or imported...
...HUAM's policy stipulates that the person in charge of a given exhibit, its curator, "should have reasonable assurance under the circumstances that the object has not...been exported from its country of origin (and/or the country where it was last legally owned) in violation of that country's laws...
...complaints about the [Sackler] are that although the policy itself is a vigorous one, it has been interpreted quite liberally," says Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Irene J. Winter, who lodged a formal complaint against the 1996 exhibit on bronzes...
...Exhibit A, as a lawyer would say: curling. I can't believe this is an Olympic sport. I know that the Canadians love the stuff, but it's just so...not athletic...
...meant to be seen; indeed, all of us in this jumbled tableau of naked skin have volunteered for the exhibit. But you sorry lot with your flash photography and your jostling to get a better view--you may see the art, but we, the streakers of Harvard Yard, we get to be the art. We are the intermediaries between your smoldering spirit, your shackled freedom and their ultimate fulfillment. What we do, we do for you--but we also do it against you, and, ultimately, without...