BUFFALO BILL AND THE WILD WEST A letter from Buffalo Bill to his cousin Lydia in 1894 stated “I love children. Bring them all.” He was referring of course to the upcoming Wild West show at Ambrose Park, Brooklyn. Buffalo Bill was never less than a hero to children, perhaps because he understood their dreams. [...]

IMPRESSIONISM Selected from five American Museums - Defining Impressionism: Neither the definition nor the use if the term "impressionism" has been consistent since 1874 when a Paris critic applied it to a group if French artists exhibiting their works independently of the government- sponsored salon. Many artists in that exhibition - Pissarro, Degas, Monet, and Renoir [...]

THE PRECIOUS LEGACY “The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections.” The Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service will hold a press conference on Monday, September 19, 1983. Drawn from one of the largest and most significant collections of Judaica in the world, these objects illustrate the vibrancy and continuity of Jewish life from [...]

DEGAS The first major retrospective exhibition in fifty years of the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) will be on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 11, 1988 through January 8, 1989. Degas will include paintings, pastels, drawings, monotypes, prints, photographs, and sculpture representing every aspect of the career of one of the [...]

CHAMPIONS OF AMERICAN SPORT Dear Sports Editor: Which sport is really America’s national pastime today? Baseball has the oldest claim, and the boys of summer - - with or without their outsized bonuses and lifetime contracts - - are eternally appealing. But TV replays and Super Bowl mania have made football Sunday’s most enduring national [...]

SMALL FOLK Dear Editor: What great American writer said … “It was a misfortune to have been born in an age when children were nothing, and to have spent mature life in an age when children were everything.” If you guessed Ralph Waldo Emerson – you were right. At the beginning of the nineteenth century [...]