Borderline.PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS Paul Vandenbroeck, curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. The first building was opened in 1876; the present one, designed by Guy Lowell, in 1909. The museum is supported entirely by private contributions and endowments. in Antwerp Antwerp, province, BelgiumAntwerp (ăn`twûrp), Du. Antwerpen, Fr. Anvers, province (1991 pop. 1,605,167), 1,104 sq mi (2,859 sq km), N Belgium, bordering on the Netherlands in the north. Antwerp (the provincial capital) and Mechelen are the chief cities., presents 120 carpets woven by Berber women and 100 palimpsests palimpsest (păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript. "woven" by the psychiatrist and artist Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger in an exhibition designed by international star architect Zaha Hadid Hadid (hā`dĭd), in the Bible, town, NE of Lydda (Lod), settled by Benjamites after the Exile.. The splendor of the abstract fabrics should not, however, detract from the contentious (and problematical) thematics of the show, which raises issues about the "originality" of modern Western abstraction while appropriating the creative labor of Berber women in the name of art-historical inquiry. The show's three companion publications, with essays by Griselda Griselda (grĭzĕl`də), long-suffering heroine of medieval story, whose husband subjects her to numerous trials in order to test her devotion. The story originated in a widespread W European folktale patterned in part upon the story of Cupid and Psyche. Pollock, Brian Massumi, and Christine Buci-Glucksmann, should explore the complexities inherent in this homage to a "female art." Feb. 25-May 21. |
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