Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money from Cambridge came as a surprise to the black farmers, Wellford said, and "Mrs. Hamer is now using it as a selling point in winning support for her plan. She's using the generosity of the Harvard community to show her people that there's an alternative to starvation and exodus--to give them a reason to stay and fight...
...THEIR Depression studies, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange set examples of the formal, restricted composition, eliminating extraneous details, while avoiding both didacticism and ambiguity. Only about a quarter of the Harlem display falls into this category of formal photography. But the pictures that do form the show's core. The charges of superficiality that have been hurled about can hardly be leveled against Aaron Siskind's "Black Sleeping below White Pinups," Gordon Parks' character studies, or Steve Schapiro's militant "Motorcyclist" with a Kennedy lapel pin held in his teeth. Both visually arresting and intensely personal, these photographs make individual...
...communications environment in which the participant is forced to choose between the many multimedia techniques that surround him. Films, tapes, music, and photos present a history of Harlem, but it is the viewer who is forced to integrate all the material into what, for him, will be the show's unique impression. It was a courageous move on the part of the museum. For very few of us, I would imagine, are comfortable enough in the area of racial confrontation to trust our own reactions...
...these set a rare ambiance for a formidable showing. The group of three graduate students who set up the show made a selection representative of Winthrop's own preferences, accentuating French drawings and Chinese jades and bronzes. There are fabulous ritual bronzes--my favorites are a big bell from the Chou dynasty and a pouring vessel with a lion's head at the front and an owl on its back...
...more diverse ones--than I could possibly mention. There are wedgewood pieces, ceramics, and clocks -- among the objects that most people enjoy least in museums. But it is wonderful to think about all of these things really belonging to one strange lonely man, drawings, clocks, bronzes and all. This show certainly makes one think of Winthrop, and look at the collection with a feeling for him, in his house, looking at them. I can just see him in front of one of his lovely clocks, trying to decide whether to set the alarm at "air," "dance," "gavotte," or "song...