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...COLUMBIAN ART AND THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...
...steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...
...system works beautifully except in those rooms where museum officials, ignoring Pei's wishes, hung paintings above other paintings. The result is a distracting sheen on the higher canvases. Asked why Pei's advice was ignored, curator Pierre Rosenberg snapped, "No museum in the world would let an architect hang artworks...
...questioned and, thanks to their diplomatic immunity, whisked out of the country 24 hours later. Greek journalists speculated that the diplomats were investigating activities of the Nov. 17 terrorist organization, which claims to have killed 10 victims of various nationalities, including diplomats and a U.S. serviceman, since 1975. Local architect Dmitris Papadopoulos was unsurprised by the discovery: "It is an agreement between the Greeks and the Americans to find the terrorists...
Paris' Louvre Museum celebrated its 200th birthday with the inauguration of the Richelieu wing. This second phase of the museum's spectacular $1 billion renovation -- the dream of President Francois Mitterrand and the work of Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei -- nearly doubles the museum's exhibition space...