Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:02:35 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoted without comment
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dicconf at radix.net 11/19/04 7:31:08 AM >>>
>
>>From the Washington POST, 18 Nov 2004:
>
>A SWORDED AFFAIR IN COLLEGE PARK
>"Magical Adventures: Fantasy Art from the Frank Collection"
>provides more
>than 60 opportunities to indulge your inner teen.  The
>exhibition, at the
>University of Maryland, includes illustration art from the covers
>of pulp
>sci-fi novels, calendars and games, most made in the last 40
>years and
>collected by McLean [Virginia] residents Jane and Howard
>Frank.  Those
>familiar with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons will be right at
>home.
>Conjuring, sorcery, scantily clad damsels in distress and
>dragon-slaying
>are major themes.  Hokey as it sounds, the show feels right:
>As the halls
>of high art welcome what was formerly considered low,
>exhibitions of
>illustration and cartooning should become even more
>common.
>
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>
>Quoted without comment because it left me speechless.
>
>This is at the Art Gallery in the Art-Sociology Building,
>University of
>Maryland, College Park, Monday-Saturday 11 to 4 until
>December 18.  It is,
>of course, closed during Darkovercon weekend...

Gosh, closed in honor of Darkover?

mjw
>
>-- Dick Eney