The scholarly but very readable catalog delves into the profound differences between ancient views of childhood and those of today.

The show benefits from a scholarly catalog written by J. Leonard Benson, a professor who has been studying Post's work for 15 years.

They're willing to do all the things you have to do - line up the loans, pay the insurance, get reproduction rights, publish scholarly catalogs.

But this fall, at last, she gets the full museum-retrospective treatment plus the kind of scholarly catalog essential to recasting an artistic reputation.

It has more artists and a scholarly catalog, and is divided into themes reflecting different uses of birds in contemporary art.

A thorough scholarly catalog, published by Bulfinch, accompanies it.

With Bard's skill at installation and scholarly but accessible catalogs, the show should provide an illuminating take on the early days of this 20th-century revolutionary in art and design.

"This asymmetrical bowl seems to cry out for pancake batter to be poured from it onto a hot griddle," writes Mr. Dietz in the scholarly catalog.

The exhibition and its scholarly catalog reveal as much about contemporary attitudes toward art and artists as they do about Rembrandt.

A bay is devoted to the museum's many scholarly catalogs and publications, materials relating to its history, and information on current and future shows.