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swarter
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iconnumber posted 06-03-2004 06:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for swarter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bad news on the museum front from MFA and others - more layoff due to budgetary problems, according to today's Boston Globe:
Citing budget woes Museum Of Fine Arts lays off 23 staffers

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Ulysses Dietz
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iconnumber posted 06-04-2004 08:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ulysses Dietz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sigh. Not surprising. When they cut funding for the arts in schools, it reflects the relative low value that the arts are given in our culture.

SUV's and McMansions and ever more gated communities; but public funding of the arts (which includes curatorial positions to care for an exhibit collections held in public trust) are dropped. The most civilized nations of the world have nationalized healthcare and nationalized museums, so that their citizens, rich and poor alike, can be health and have access to great beauty.

Well, wasn't that cynical!

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frank1014

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iconnumber posted 06-30-2004 01:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for frank1014     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is bad news indeed.
All I can say, is that when I visited Boston from the West Coast last month, I spent well over an hour in utter rapture in the MFA room which has, among other items, the Paul Revere rescinder's bowl, and a host of Copley portraits of the revolutionary elite. I am certainly grateful for that opportunity.

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Paul Lemieux

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iconnumber posted 07-02-2004 03:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Paul Lemieux     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I hope you also had a chance to see the MFA's wonderful Gorham Narragansett punch ladle & similar punch bowl, also the Gorham pitcher in the form of a coiled snake and a handful of other neat Aesthetic pieces.

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Ulysses Dietz
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iconnumber posted 07-06-2004 09:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ulysses Dietz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And, for 2005, The Newark Museum will be mounting an exhibition for my 25th anniversary (half my life), tentatively entitled: Style, Status, Sterling: The Rise and Fall of Silver in America

Now I just have to figure out what it means.

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FredZ

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iconnumber posted 07-06-2004 07:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FredZ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can we expect a catalogue of the exhibit?

Fred

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Ulysses Dietz
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iconnumber posted 07-07-2004 08:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ulysses Dietz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sigh, no. Catalogues cost a huge amount of money, and we don't have it. Someday I'd love to publish a book on our silver holdings, but it's not going to be possible for this show. The best I'll be able to do is to do a good website and then a checklist on the website that people can download.

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FredZ

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iconnumber posted 07-07-2004 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FredZ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That would be fabulous. I understand the cost and effort required to publish. I would love to oneday see what the Museum has stored in it's "Vaults".

Thanks for any information you may be able to provide.

Fred

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t-man-nc

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iconnumber posted 07-12-2004 04:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for t-man-nc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OK When is it going to be held (what dates), As I am only 5 hours away, I may be able to drive up to see....

"Smaug"

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Ulysses Dietz
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iconnumber posted 07-13-2004 08:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ulysses Dietz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Smaug, as in the dragon from the Hobbit?

The offical opening date is March 30; but keep abreast of our website as it may change.

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t-man-nc

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iconnumber posted 07-23-2004 10:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for t-man-nc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Exactly! What my wife calls me for being a collector of many treasures but a seller of none...:-)

"Smaug"

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