Word: museum
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Lining the Mall are the Smithsonian museums, which are crowded, fascinating and, best of all, free. The two biggies are the National Gallery of Art and the Air and Space Museum...
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy. Through April...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...