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...Hoopes Prize was established after Thomas T. Hoopes ’19, former curator of the City Art Museum in St. Louis, left half of his estate to the College for the purpose of creating an award to honor undergraduate research work in any field. According to the guidelines of the prize, the work may be submitted by any student in any form—from a research paper to a visual arts project—although traditionally the vast majority of Hoopes prizes have been awarded for senior theses...
...Harvard, Houghton lived in Lowell House and concentrated in history. He developed a love for European history, and also took a handful of art history courses—a prelude to his future work as chairman of the Metropolitan Museum...
...museum, which opens June 2, has been a consuming project for Alan Gerry. Long ago, he was a high school dropout who ran a business selling and repairing televisions in nearby Liberty, N.Y. But eventually he founded Cablevision, which he sold in 1996 for $2.7 billion to Time Warner. At 78, he's a venture capitalist who wears an American-flag pin on his lapel--which makes him an unlikely guy to devote himself to the legacy of a place that had a freak-out tent. But he does have a daughter who attended Woodstock (against his wishes). And another...
...hectares), enough to start thinking about putting in a golf course and even a theme park--bad ideas that he abandoned. Instead, two years ago he opened the Pavilion Stage there, an outdoor concert venue whose lineup this summer includes Cyndi Lauper, Steely Dan and Tony Bennett. The museum, which hopes to attract 90,000 visitors in its first year, is the second major element in what's now called the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts...
...museum itself? It's entertaining and briskly informative, filled with flat-screen TVs showing period footage and glass cases that hold things like old Jefferson Airplane album covers. I enjoyed it well enough. But I was never able to shake the feeling that the place that really preserves the spirit of Woodstock is that big open field outside. Woodstock was the last great event of the 19th century, a delayed outburst of Romantic-era communalism and nature worship. It was built on sentiments that aren't conveyed very well by institutional means. So if you visit the museum, which...