This is a thrilling and exuberant account of the Old world colliding with the New, but thankfully, it is no history lesson.
The powerful "Women Manifest: At the Core" curated by photographer Brooke Mason, and the exuberant "A Brief History Of Drag" curated by artist Austin Young who also photographed the show's masterpiece, the largest group drag portrait ever made.
What could be dry social history becomes exuberant art-making.Ms Gallagher often folds historical characters into her work, including "Peg Leg" Bates, a one-legged tap dancer, and Eunice Rivers, a nurse who was implicated in the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment carried out on black Alabamans between 1932 and 1972.
In his 58 years, Mr. Read has been many things to many people: beloved son, husband and father; perhaps the most feared criminal in Melbourne's notorious criminal history; an exuberant painter; the king of Australia's most dangerous prison; and one of the country's best-selling contemporary authors, including of children's books.
Possibly the production there closest to Stevens's heart was the 1968 triumph of Close the Coalhouse Door, an exuberant piece on the history of the local coal industry, a collaboration between Alan Plater (based on Sid Chaplin's writing) and Alex Glasgow, who wrote the songs; this was a robust, funny and moving landmark piece of popular theatre.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua described the ceremony as "dazzling" and an "eccentric and exuberant celebration of British history, art and culture".
However, Henry IV Part One, normally the most boisterously exuberant of Shakespeare's histories, here seems a slightly routine affair.
Price made his mark in rock music history with his exuberant tenor and his flair for recasting rhythm and blues as irrepressible pop music, often working with seminal New Orleans producer Dave Bartholomew.
It could not be uglier, and yet the wallpaper is a novelty that visitors appreciate, evidence of a family with no pressing interest in addressing obvious problems of decor, and also proof of a happy time, an exuberant, fanciful time in American history that spawned exuberant and fanciful wallpaper.
But Mr. Birnbaum, who speaks in exuberant paragraphs that weave together history and observation, knows that it doesn't matter how widely the word has spread if what is being spoken about is not actually seen — particularly by a society that so often renders landscapes invisible.
