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True to its title, "Beauty and the Brain" is a hybrid. Billed as part exhibition and part experiment, the single-gallery installation features only one actual object: a 1959 abstract sculpture, in white plaster, by Jean Arp called "La Dame de Delos (The Woman of Delos)."

 
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Davies Collection show brims with shy charms

"Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces From the Davies Collection" is a rarity on the most practical level: The majority of the 53 works on display have never traveled to this hemisphere.

 

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Institution honors Greensboro Four

Men were given the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for the actions they took 50 years ago. "The whole concept of honoring the 50th anniversary is humbling," Franklin E. McCain says.

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