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Last year NEA money totaling $45,000 was used by the Corcoran museum for an exhibition by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and by an institution that gave an award to the artist Andres Serrano. One of Serrano's pieces was a photo of a plastic crucifix immersed in the artist's urine -- a fairly conventional piece of postsurrealist blasphemy, which, though likely to have less effect on established religion than a horsefly on a tank, was bound to irk some people. Mapplethorpe's show was to contain some icy, polished and (to most straights and, one surmises, at least...
...politics was local politics. A Missoula newspaper gave second billing to statehood, emphasizing instead the selection of the first U.S. Senators. "It was a surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman...
Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus Paul C. Mangelsdorf, a prominent botanist and the former head of Harvard's Botanical Museum, died in his sleep on July 22. He was 90 years...
Mangelsdorf joined the Harvard faculty in 1940 as a professor of economic botany, a post he held for 22 years before his appointment to the Fisher chair. From 1945 to 1967, he directed Harvard's Botanical Museum...
...first major U.S. museum show of contemporary Japanese art in more than two decades, artists look at nature and at the making of art in unexpected ways...