Word: exhibits
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...called double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, which Audubon and a team of British printers, engravers and colorists laboriously assembled between 1827 and 1838. This massive volume, one of the 200 originally printed, is the centerpiece of "Audubon & the Smithsonian," a yearlong exhibit that recently opened at the National Museum of American History in Washington...
...Museum of Fine Arts. This year the esteemed institution ditched Winslow Homer and went pop. The season opened with the potpourri contemporary art show, "Face and Figure," a conglomeration of New England artists and world-renowned avant-garde figures. Souls were sold for a Herb Ritts exhibit and Roy Lichtenstein offered his take on Chinese landscape painting...
...renewal of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, which lowers U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. President Clinton supports the measure, but opponents, who include religious and human-rights activists as well as industries fearful of low-cost Chinese competition, plan to make Beijing's alleged transgressions their Exhibit A. Referring to the ballooning $40 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, Gary Bauer, head of the right-wing Family Research Council, says, "The Chinese government needs our market, not the other way around...
...during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo, which houses both meerkats and lions in its "Lion Overlook." At the San Diego Wild Animal Park...
...sculpture installation titled "Attention's Loop," by 1996-97 Bunting Fellow Elizabeth King, will also be on exhibit at the Institute throughout the weekend...