Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widening the losses at insolvent S & Ls, the rate increases may drive up the cost of the federal rescue, which under Bush's plan could cost $200 billion during the next three decades. By week's end, though, the ailing S & Ls began to show some restraint. Rates on six-month CDs fell to 9.5% at Commonwealth and 10.1% at BancPlus...
HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES: 30 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artists grasp their ethnicity with color, vitality and fantasy, but this show is art, not sociology, and much of it is a revelation. Through April...
...through the calendar, museums in the U.S. and abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures...
...Lacayo has appraised photographic styles ranging from the dark documentary stills of Robert Frank to the robust portraiture of Lisette Model. This week he reviews "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989," a sweeping survey of the form's history at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Says he: "This show will impress upon people the sheer variety of the art. There's nothing mechanical about...
...relatively recent, and programs aimed at treating them are scarce. Thomas, a counselor to ex- offenders in Oakland for eleven years, had no model when she began her program in December 1987. But with the dramatic increase of crack-contaminated infants, she did not wait for someone else to show the way. "There was a void in the system," she explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from officials who knew and respected...