Determined to make a significant number of the Museum's treasures available to the public during the ten months that the Museum was closed in order to complete air-conditioning and renovations, some sixty works were installed at the Rodin Museum beginning April 15. S

Creating excitement during the Philadelphia Festival, a project of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, was Seahorses, a dramatic draped fabric environment by artist Sam Gilliam.

Howard Robert's nineteenth century American sculpture, La Première Pose, was the focus of an exhibition in the Armory from February 18 to April 13. Also on view were works by Thomas Eakins and William Rush.

A recently acquired masterpiece of the Baroque style in Europe, The Massacre of the Innocents, by the seventeenth century Neapolitan artist Massimo Stanzione, was the inspiration for a small didactic exhibition that also included drawings, and paintings by other seventeenth century Neapolitan artists.

Displayed through December in the Special Exhibition Galleries were a group of major recent acquisitions in twentieth century art. Philip Pearlstein's Two Female Models with Drawing Table shared the spotlight with impressive works by Italo Scanga, Roy Lichtenstein, Sidney Goodman, Rafael Ferrer, and Walter Darby Bannard.

The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection is an exhibition of some fifty paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Larry Rivers, many previously unrepresented in the Museum's collections