A comprehensive checklist documenting each of the works—including detailed provenance, exhibition history, bibliographic references, and commentary by a conservator rounds out this handsome volume, which is published to accompany the first international tour of this important collection.
Some are detailed in exhibition wall labels, in an audioguide recorded by Mr. Rogovin, in catalog essays by Dave Isay, David Miller and Harvey Wang, and in a recent film by Mr. Wang about the photographer and his wife, Anne, who helped him with his work and who died this summer.
Its dramatic, vividly detailed permanent exhibition, the heart of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, is among the finest museum pieces Chicago has to offer.
Additional speakers and program details. Exhibition opening and reception immediately following.
According to an academic paper detailing its exhibition history, " 'Ice Bag' never functioned for longer than a few days at a time, and, even then, it performed only part of its intended motion.
Indeed, AEI's presentations often resemble video games and special effects in movies, permitting viewers to fly over and around structures -- or even to enter them, walking into richly detailed corridors and exhibition halls and practically bumping into digital patrons along the way.
But the discovery, confirmed after a thorough scrubbing in the conservation lab and detailed in a small exhibition, raises more questions than it answers.
The exhibition features detailed explanations of the complicated conservation process, and it includes several short but very informative videos.
There's an aquarium, a maritime museum and an architecturally striking Museum of Catalonian History (Plaça de Pau Vila, 3; 34-93-225-4700; www.mhcat.net), with exhibitions detailing the story of this fiercely independent and once-embattled part of Spain; admission, 3.01 euros, or $3.89 at $1.29 to the euro; 2.10 euros for ages 7 to 18.
Exhibitions, detailing the plans, will take place in 14 towns and villages over the next three weeks.
