The current big exhibition is Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration. I thought it rang a bell. You might remember Spain in the Age of Exploration: 1492-1819 (from 2004). It seems that SAM wants to be an explorer in the realm of exploration.
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Aren’t these big touring shows put together by production companies that gather the individual pieces from a variety of collections to create the traveling exhibition, which is then hosted in regional museums for a cut of the profits? In that case, we should look to the organization that produced this traveling art circus as the source of the name. Check out the schedule for this show and see if it is called that it the other venues.
@1: No, these are not. Both are exhibitions organized by SAM, and showing exclusively at SAM.
@2 then you’re quite right in suggesting they need a new pr firm.
“Hernán Cortés asked him the name of this exotic place they’d found. The man responded, ‘Ma c’ubah than,’ which the Spanish heard as Yucatán. Four and a half centuries later, in the 1970s, linguists researching archaic Mayan dialects concluded that ‘Ma c’ubah than’ meant ‘I do not understand you’.” – Cacilda Jethá