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Responding to turmoil in the global financial sector, Asian art collectors also proceeded with caution this week, sending the hot market for contemporary Chinese art towards an apparent cool down. At a Sotheby's sale of 20th century Chinese artwork on Oct. 5, two-thirds of the 110 lots failed to sell, and many of the pieces that did find buyers went for below their estimated prices. By the close of the biannual sales of the world's largest publicly traded art auction house, Sotheby's took in about half what it had expected, at just over $140.7 million...
ANTWERP Margiela The MoMu Museum presents an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of avant-garde Belgian designer Martin Margiela (through...
...difficult to judge where the hole locations are or find the greens.” “It was tough to get the ball to back pins—when it hit the greens it just stuck there,” Mayer added. Behind Shuman, Pollak tied for 20th in his second tournament appearance. Turning in a very respectable 223 (70-76-77), Pollak delivered a solid performance despite his relative inexperience. Rounding out the Harvard contingent, Mayer tied for 29th place, 78-73-75, senior John Christensen shot 77-76-77, and captain Michael Shore shot...
...sees the project as a step toward developing what he calls "the aesthetics of sustainability," a new vocabulary of forms for a future in which green buildings will be the norm. "The 19th century was about new kinds of construction," he says. "Steel and so forth. And the 20th century created a language for that. Now architects must develop an aesthetic for our discovery about the fragility of nature." And as they do, one of the places they'll study most closely is this inspired academy--not a temple on a hill but a hill on a temple...
...constitutional originalism. He opposes the concept of a “living Constitution,” that the Constitution’s meaning should be adapated to fit the needs of contemporary society. In the speech, Scalia invoked the era before Earl Warren became Chief Justice in the mid-20th century, when the standard view held that the Constitution should be “no different from any other legal text, such as a statute.” “It bears a static meaning which does not change from generation to generation,” Scalia said. Although...