"Nearly all of the fair's cultural exhibits are troubling to anthropologists today," the exhibition notes.
The exhibition notes tell visitors to "take home a piece of sky".
When it was displayed in 1861 in Paris, the exhibition notes, the audience was disappointed.
(The exhibition notes that some textile patterns seem related to Celtic styles).
The exhibition notes that contemporary stamps illustrate "popular culture," "American diversity," "holidays" and "great achievements".
As the Metropolitan's exhibition notes, Warhol divorced image from color.
Fernandez met Beck, a nurse, through a pen pal club for the lovelorn, the exhibition notes.
Within two centuries, exhibition notes remind us, "the primacy of ancient geographic knowledge and mapping conventions came to an end".
In part, of course, as the exhibition notes, the style invokes an invented past in which history's grittier aspects are stripped away.
These were the sites of his most famous acts: the trunk and can were everyday objects, the exhibition notes, well within the ken of immigrant audiences.
One autopsy report from 1951 in the exhibition notes: "The cerebellum seen from the posterior surfaces is opaque and grayish in color.
