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Mazur, referred to by a member of the VES department as "a leader of modern print-making," has had his work displayed in museums such as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Although he is best known for his prints, he points as well, and is continuing his work here in Cambridge...
...would not be an exaggeration to say that Americans were obsessed with the Pope throughout his stay. The New York Times created whole sections dedicated exclusively to reporting the details of the Pontiff's visit. Television and radio coverage throughout the New York metropolitan area exceeded that of the O.J. trial. The Pope simply transfixed this country: Catholics, Protestants and Jews alike...
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY IN AMERICA," the show of some 75 paintings that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a thoroughly absorbing affair. There has never been any doubt about Copley's importance to American art. He was the best portraitist the young colony produced in the 18th century. He was also its second major cultural expatriate, after Benjamin West. His career falls into two halves, the first set in provincial Boston and New York, the second in imperial London. And yet, fine as his English work was, one may prefer his American paintings...
...addition to his duties at Corning. Houghton is a director of Dow Corning, Corp., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. and Exxon Corp. He is also a trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum...
Among Houghton's pastimes are fly fishing at The Field, the estate he build on Spencer Hill in 1972 and art, as shown by his involvement with the Metropolitan Museum...