Brown turned to biopics with the modestly scaled Edison, the Man (1940), which starred Spencer Tracy as the inventor.
Perfectly (meaning modestly) scaled, with the kind of Asian art loans — matchless in quality, straight from the source — that we rarely see here anymore.
Nevertheless, in a modestly scaled gallery the combination of 40 examples becomes challenging because each needs a considerable amount of breathing space. 2 Centuries of American Art The Museums at Stony Brook, 1208 Route 25A, Stony Brook.
But they all seem better suited to the modestly scaled subplot about the murder of a friend of Myrna's, the last of five world-famous sisters, much like the Dionne quintuplets, who became symbols of hope to a nation struggling to survive the Depression.
Mr. Vaughn, whose last movie was the modestly scaled "Kick-Ass," keeps the mutants, locales and narrative elements from blurring together and sometimes gives the proceedings a nice jolt, as in a forcible tooth extraction seen from inside a gaping mouth.
Many younger artists are similarly chipping away at rigid notions of ethnicity, as one can see in the modestly scaled exhibition titled "Aztlan Today: The Chicano Postnation," at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through Sept. 9. Eight years ago, the museum put on a historical show of Chicano work done from 1965 to 1985, an era of intense Mexican-American civil rights activism.
Mr. Fine notes that Ms. May shot more than twice as much film as it took to get "Gone With the Wind" in the can, but her struggles to get her modestly scaled wonderment into the world were worth every frame, dollar and drop of blood.
And his cabinet is an emblem of curiosity itself, a modestly scaled descendant of the wunderkammer, or cabinet of wonder, that the Renaissance had invented to house its discoveries, natural and artificial.
Tuesday marks the start of the Vision Festival, a redoubtable avant-garde summit now in its 14th year (visionfestival.org.) Then there are more modestly scaled efforts, like the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Festival, which begins June 18 (bjurecords.com), and the Festival of New Trumpet Music, from June 26 to 28 (fontmusic.net).
The modestly scaled show is organized by the Skyscraper Museum, which was founded by Carol Willis, a professor of urban studies at Columbia University, in 1997 and has occupied a succession of borrowed spaces in Lower Manhattan.
