Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
Beadles & Magnificence. Despite everything, it was a rather wonderful show. Visitors could forgive a dozen stilted scenes of the chase for a curio such as Tregonwell Frampton Arrested by a Bea dle, or The Ancient Ceremony of Cheese-rolling; and could pass pleasant minutes in contemplation of George Stubbs's beautifully painted study of Gimcrack (see cut), a magnificent grey horse of the 1760s, or of Marshall's John ("Gentle man") Jackson, a straight, first-rate study of the prime pugilist of the Regency...
Clear & Teary. Last month the Corcoran put on a show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
Last week, from the evidence of the De Gustibus show, it appeared that popular art appreciation in the U.S. was lagging about 60 years behind contemporary U.S. artists. Visitors to the exhibit picked William M. Harnett's morning-clear still life, Old Models (1892), as their favorite painting in the show, and gave second place to Thomas Hovenden's Breaking the Home Ties (1890), a teary scene of family parting complete with sad-eyed Rover. The 1890s were voted the favorite decade, the 1880s next, and the 1930s (where the modernist vote was massed) third...
...view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...