Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation's ways--established when Harvard was a small college in the wilderness--need to be reformed, as they seem painfully inadequate for the modern world. The University is now a multifarious community made up not only of undergraduates and faculty, but of graduate and professional students, clerical and technical workers, and alumni. Some system must be created that can incorporate the views of all these constituencies when changes in Harvard governance occur--as in selecting new Corporation members...
Without any debate, Baryshnikov is a performer of artistic genius, but no man is a hero to his corps de ballet. The big morale crisis in Private View involved the casting of the film Dancers, a modern gloss on the classic Giselle. Less than half the troupe's dancers were selected; for the rest, rejection amounted to a devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. In this joint venture, the National offers "The Legacy of Venice," two centuries of painting from Giorgione (a progenitor of the pastoral genre) to Watteau, while the Phillips, in "The Modern Vision," carries the theme from Constable down to Matisse. Through...
...conditioned their public to expect sweeping historical surveys and one-person retrospectives that one forgets how uncommon it is to bump into an exhibition that sets out more modestly to look at ideas about culture. Just such a show is The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice and the Modern Vision, organized by the Phillips Collection in Washington and set forth in two parts, one at the Phillips and the other at the National Gallery...