Paintings provide precise weather history
(09/14/99 4:00am)
YOUR MISSION, should you accept it, is to visit 41 art museums in the United States and Europe, study 12,000 paintings for their meteorological revealings, and publish your results so that this fate of hitting museum marble in your Birkenstocks need not befall future generations. Is this a fleecing of America? Relax! This all happened in the 1960s, before our current zeal for budget balancing.