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...raise money for the Peabody's budget by charging Perot a yet unspecified sum for use of the artifacts in the same way that art museums paid to exhibit the "King Tut" collection five years...
While one Peabody official described Perot as "the best thing to happen to anthropology since the discovery of King Tut's tomb," some New York residents now seem to regard him as a corporate raider...
...Morgan Library's own drawings), this is not the kind of exhibition to bring hoarsely clamoring crowds to the gates of Ticketron. Nor can it, by itself, restore to us the sense of the masterpiece (and of the skills that underlie its production) that has been imperiled by post-Tut museum hype. But of those 75 loans at the Morgan, perhaps 40 really are masterpieces in their genre, and the rest are of unassailably high quality. It is rare to see such a concentrated show...
...work down. The valleys of American painting are so marshy that it is better to lift one's eyes to the peaks. Last fall an exhibition that does just this opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it was besieged by Tut-size crowds; it can now be seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and will go to Paris in March. "A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910" may be the best survey show of its kind ever held. Certainly it will be the first time that this area of American...
...news from Poland indicated that the military regime was successfully breaking resistance, critics across the political spectrum accused the Administration of looking the other way while freedom was being smashed in Poland. From the right, outraged New York Times Columnist William Safire charged the Administration with "helpless tut-tutting" and said Reagan and his aides had been guilty of "moral paralysis." From the left, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts denounced "some who say we cannot take a firm stand on Poland because that will offend the Soviets...