Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premium. Searching three years ago for Gibeon, Dr. Pritchard surveyed 39 sites, picked El-Jib partly because its name, transliterated from Hebrew to Arabic, might well be a blurred rendering of Gibeon. Last year Pritchard began to dig (his expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...
Another area of expansion is the greater use of Boston buildings, to encourage attendance of people who work in the city. Course meetings will be held at Boston University, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Old South Meeting House...
Hisimatsu will speak in Japanese, and a simultaneous translation will be provided by his assistant, Jikai Fujiyoshi. He will also give two lectures on Zen art, at Fogg Museum...
Chances with Fenders. To coax Smith out of the woods, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week staged an impressive retrospective of 34 of his bronze, steel and iron works, plus a handful of paintings and drawings, covering some 20 years of production. After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face...
Smith's rugged iron works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things...