Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Renovations to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, scheduled to be completed in about a year, will alleviate some of the burden and free up space elsewhere, Parsons says...
...expert at dealing with brute force on thefield, Harlow showed delicate care in hiscollection of rare birds' eggs off the field.After his retirement in 1947, Harlow became acurator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
...Each museum visitor gets an emergency pack of 20 exclamation points at the door, just to keep his or her spirits up. No wonder the place is as full as a dry-county barbecue on Saturday night. If you want to really pig out on cultural gorging and glut without risking any hangover of thought, then Red Grooms, good ole boy extraordinaire, will...
...dichotomies are no mere zero-sum stalemate, sensibility vs. sensibility ad infinitum. There is meaning to this madness. Masterly, highly original work is being produced by designers of all kinds. Arata Isozaki's Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is one of the most fetching new buildings in the U.S. Tadao Ando's severe, uncompromising architecture won him Europe's prestigious Alvar Aalto Prize last year, as well as the respect of young architects all over the world. Maki, an architect who has lived and worked in the U.S., thinks this is unquestionably the Japanese moment. Given the "exceedingly...