Human Origins:
            The Roots of Mankind
            . John Napier. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1970 (distributed by Braziller, New York). x, 240 pp., illus. $6.95.

The chapter “Mid-Atlantic” discusses scientific and technological sites of adult interest in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, including the Johnson Victrola Museum, National Cryptologic Museum, the Sarnoff Collection, New York Botanical Garden, Joseph Priestley House, and Smithsonian Institution. The traveler is provided with essential information, including addresses, telephone numbers, hours of entry, handicapped access, dining facilities, dates open and closed, available public transportation, and websites. Nearly every site included here has been visited by the authors. Although written with scientists in mind, this book is for anyone who likes to travel and visit places of historical and scientific interest. Included are photographs of many sites within each state.

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Wood, Beatrice (1893–1998)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem530-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Thelma Rohrer

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

San Francisco ◽

York City ◽

Smithsonian Institution ◽

Native State ◽

Marcel Duchamp ◽

Avant Garde ◽

American Artist ◽

New York Dada

An American potter known for luster-glaze chalices and whimsical ceramic figures, Beatrice Wood was once named the "Mama of Dada." Born on 3 March 1893 into a wealthy family in San Francisco, California, raised in New York City, and a student at the Académie Julian in Paris, Wood rebelled from her traditional upbringing by 1912. Seeking a more bohemian life, she joined avant-garde art circles, became friends with Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roché, and was influential in the New York Dada movement. During the 1930s, her early successes in ceramics provided independent income and, by 1948, she settled in Ojai, California, to continue her interest in theosophy. She established a studio developing embedded luster glazes with radiant colors and continued this work for over thirty years. Wood was recognized as a "California Living Treasure" by her native state, named an "Esteemed American Artist" by the Smithsonian Institution, and partly inspired the character "Rose" in the 1997 film Titanic. She died on 12 March 1998 at the age of 105.

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How to make sense of treasure

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00098215 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 83 (319) ◽

pp. 206-208

Author(s):

N. James

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Smithsonian Institution ◽

Fine Art ◽

National Museum ◽

New York University ◽

Art Collection ◽

The Usa

Treasures in themselves are fetishes. Only the admirer can make 'treasure' of a find in isolation; but to wonder about it as treasure opens apt questions about why the thing was valued, by whom and under what conditions. It was worrying, then, when the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University's art collection, took in an exhibition of striking ancient finds returning to the Georgian National Museum from the USA (Smithsonian Institution and New York University). For the usual focus on the intrinsic qualities of fine art sits awkwardly with archaeological concern for context. The Fitzwilliam did tend to isolate the exhibits; but, here, that yielded an advantage as well as a difficulty.

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