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Exhibitions Archived in: 1994
An Eye for Antiquity: Photographs from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Knight Zewadski
20 January–13 March 1994
The exhibition encompasses all types of photography taken in Greece and Rome from its inception in 1839 to the present day. The collection of William Knight Zewadski includes snapshots, photo albums, books illustrated with photography, and postcards, in addition to photography produced for purely artistic reasons. The exhibition includes nearly... more »
The Stage is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch
12 April–12 June 1994
Tanya Moiseiwitsch spent her childhood in the company of great men—whether it was her father Benno Moiseiwitsch, the great pianist, his colleague, Mark Hambourg, or her step-father John Drinkwater, noted Shakespearean expert. It was in this environment that Tanya discovered and nurtured her talent as a designer of sets, props,... more »
Hannah Höch, 1889-1978: Collages
12 April–26 June 1994
Hannah Höch, The only female member of the Berlin Dada group, revolutionized the genre of photomontage, the process originated by the Dada artists, of cutting up pre-existing imagery and reassembling it into new, unusual, and often humorous configurations. Like her circle, Höch rejected traditional ideas of “fine art,” choosing instead... more »
John Phillips: Selections from the Series "A Contemporary Odyssey"
5 July–21 August 1994
John Phillips’s series, “A Contemporary Odyssey,” represents a heroic search for self as the artist responds to the story of Odysseus’s ten years of adventure and wandering on the voyage home following a decade of war against the Trojans. Phillips conceives of the ancient Greek myth as “the story of... more »
MFA Show 1994
10 July–28 August 1994
MFA 1994 brings together a strong group of painters and sculptors. Darlene Kryza, the one photographer, offers fascinating glimpses of herself through the medium of large-format color still-lifes. Works in painting include the rich abstractions of Vera Anna Slawinski, Erica Moiah James’s meditations on her own body, and our resident... more »
An Old Master Painting Restored: King David by Girolamo da Santa Croce
30 August–4 December 1994
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Visions of a Nation: Images of Mexico by Mexican and American Photographers
13 December 1994–5 March 1995
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