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...time when craft is flourishing, and when the Bauhaus' straight lines have been tied in postmodern knots, Tiffany's plummy palate, iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...
JAZZ PIANO (Smithsonian Collection). A four-CD (six-LP) compendium of outstanding keyboard artists recorded between 1924 and 1978. Virtually every American jazz pianist of note -- 42 in all, ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Keith Jarret -- is represented in these 68 solo tracks. As if a gold mine of great music were not enough, the scholarly notes by Dick Katz, Martin Williams and Francis Davis make this a must-have for serious jazz aficionados...
Although the concentration only averages an enrollment of about six undergraduates each year, the program at the Smithsonian Observatory boasts more than 50 graduate students and several visiting scientists each year...
...factor behind the declining interest in science is the nerdy image of scientists, said Andrea K. Dupree of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the largest center of its kind in the world...
...first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane and the Military Flyer for the Smithsonian...