Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial display opened this week, after years of local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building, built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not consulted on the plans...
ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him, for better or worse, the top of the pops. Through...
HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES: 30 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artists grasp their ethnicity with color, vitality and fantasy, but this show is art, not sociology, and much of it is a revelation. Through April...
...current exhibit consists of 14 prints of the proposed architectural plans, including two exterior-view prints hand-colored with pencils, two samples of materials to be used in the building and a cardboard scale model of the new museum. Although the exhibit is not similar to the retrospectives and theme collections the Fogg usually displays, the scrupulously plotted plans of the building are aesthetically interesting, and possibly fascinating to those interested in architecture...
...from five different angles, floor by floor like a large layer cake. They show the future locations of the new Fine Arts Library reading room, the new galleries and display rooms and the renovations to be made in the Fogg. The two large colored prints show what the new museum should look like on the outside: squarely angular and covered with square slate and pink granite tiles arranged strategically. Samples of the tiles themselves are displayed nearby...