The lineup of concerts, films, a book fair, fashion shows, photography exhibitions, round-table discussions and more also includes tributes to Miriam Makeba and Wole Soyinka, and performances by the National Ballet of Senegal, Akon, Urban Bush Women and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Thinking golf might be more profitable than tortoises, one Jaycee, Ed May Jr., invited the United States Open champion Ben Hogan to play an exhibition round in Hartford.
For his exhibition round in the flair finals, Mr. Riebenack, a young man with a shaved head whose nickname is Alcohol Paul, had the house lights turned almost off, then emerged in a black, hooded jumpsuit outlined in glow-in-the-dark green.
The recent victory of IBM's Watson computer against human competitors in an exhibition round of Jeopardy got computer scientist Stephen Wolfram thinking about how regular search engines might fare in such a match-up.
The show, which has been making the art exhibition rounds (it next hits Portland, Ore., and Boulder, Colo)., doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course.
Marta Kuzma, who organized the exhibition, kindly rounded up a few local experts the other day to mull over an answer at lunch.
Drawn from an archive of more than 30,000 items, the exhibition does a lot to round out Vishniac's story, but whether it will alter how he is perceived is debatable.
"Greater New York," at the P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the newly annexed Queens branch of the Museum of Modern Art, and the "2000 Biennial" exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, round up work by enough young, unknown artists to start a college.
So for the sake of brevity, and in the interest of saving shoe leather, theguardian.com/culture intends to make it round the entire exhibition in an afternoon: pointing out the highlights and issuing warnings about horrors to avoid.
