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THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE: THE WORLD OF BEATRIX POTTER, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Childhood would be a fallow field without the carrot patches and flopsy bunnies of this great storyteller. But Peter and his friends weren't Potter's only creations, and the show also delves into a trove of her naturalistic sketches. Kids will love the accompanying tea parties and interactive video games. Through...
...about government support for religious expression, opponents began speaking up. It was one thing to outlaw state-written prayers, they said, but what about a moment of silence? Perhaps reading the Bible as part of a morning devotional was inappropriate, but what about recognition of extracurricular religious clubs? Justice Potter Stewart, writing in 1963, foreshadowed the debates of the 1980s and '90s when he warned that the court was hardly being neutral in its school-prayer decisions. A ban on noncoercive religious exercises in school placed religion "at an artificial and state-created disadvantage," he said...
Iyer tries to focus on spiritual aspects, but Westerners break his concentration. A potter from California confesses, "For a long time, you know, I used to repress this thing about being a witch." Another American, long resident among the Japanese, warns, "The one subject you never mention to them is politics. Never, man. Makes them go dead." Sex is a different matter. Evidences of it are everywhere: in the omnipresent skin magazines, the vending machines for X-rated videos, the cryptic mechanical devices. Iyer notes and rejects them...
...YIXING POTTER, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. More than 100 16th through 20th century ceramic tea containers from the Yixing region of China are on display, many decorated with plant and animal designs and engraved poetry. Through June...
...most famous definition of pornography is still the eyeball test once offered by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: "I know it when I see it." A grand jury in Hamilton County, Ohio, figured they knew what they were seeing in Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center last April. Citing pictures that were part of a retrospective of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work, they brought criminal charges against the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, for pandering obscenity...