Word: museum
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...town for the opening of a touring puzzle exhibition at the MIT museum, the collectors added an air of professionalism to an otherwise casual event. The collectors arrived with a few puzzles of their own, imported from their massive stores of puzzles. Featured among the games were Rubik's Cubes, Chinese folding boxes, Indian peg games and other mind twisters from around the world...
...preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard for 8 years, disagreed. "I must say, for all the criticism certaim elected officials mete out to Harvard, Harvard has done more and more for schools," he said, citing University efforts such as Citystep, Phillips Brooks House tutoring, and educational programs at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...life, the group gasped. There before them, inside a chamber that had been sealed 4,600 years ago, lay the dismantled timbers of a wooden ship. The archaeologists immediately recognized it as the long-sought companion to the famous royal ship of Cheops that now resides in a Giza museum...
Frank Stella is 51 this year, too old to be a prodigy but still young for an artist, and his second retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City -- consisting of work done since 1970, the year of his first one -- has just opened. He is one of the very few American artists to get this double crown in their lifetime, thanks to the enthusiasm with which William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, views his work. It is hardly an exaggeration that MOMA treats Stella as Jackson Pollock's true dauphin in the lineage...
...still to achieve something. Stella is a pictorial rhetorician on the grand scale, and nobody who cares about the fate of abstract painting today could chew through this show -- cramped and arrhythmic though its installation is -- without being deeply moved. Just as Lucian Freud's exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington shows up the dinginess of most American figure painting in the '80s, so Stella's fearless panache and the profusion of his output refute the common idea that the possibilities of abstract painting are played out. From the fascist lugubriousness of early striped paintings like "Die Fahne hoch...