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Under the direction of former Yale Ornithologist Dillon Ripley, 52, Washington's fusty Smithsonian Institution has been spreading its wings of late. Its most staggering nest egg, donated last May, is Joseph Hirshhorn's $25 million collection of painting and sculpture, which is destined for its own building on the Capitol mall but will be administered by the Smithsonian. Last week the Smithsonian received a second bonanza: 102 paintings assembled for S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., four years ago. Under the title "Art: USA," they traveled 70,000 miles through 14 countries on three continents to become the most...
Destination of the Johnson Collection, currently at the Fort Worth Art Center, is Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts. What the Smithsonian will get is a panoramic survey of U.S. painting, restricted in time but encompassing the then current art scene. In retrospect, the moment it caught was one of transition between abstract expressionism and the pop-op movement, but the collection has enough prime works by established artists to prove that for American art, almost any year in recent decades has been a vintage year...
...Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will hold an open house at 8 p.m. next Tuesday. Professor Carl E. Sagan's talk, "Other Planets, Other Suns," will be followed by films. Tickets, free, at 4 Matthews Hall...
...traditional view, the dark areas of Mars are considered lowlands, with bright sectors a mere mile or so higher. But Carl E. Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy, and James B. Pollack of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, have reversed the roles of dark and light areas. And the highland, they say, are far more than a mile above "sea" level...
...Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...