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...Kurtz says he showed the police catalogs of his past exhibits, including one on genetically modified plants at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. "I told them, I am a professor. Please call my boss and confirm this with her," says Kurtz. After the medical examiner told the police that Hope's cause of death was not strangulation, as officers had initially speculated (her death would be ruled heart failure), the police left...
...hours, detectives questioned Kurtz about how Hope, 45, had died and about the beakers, bacteria and lab equipment he had on a table upstairs. Kurtz, a 50-year-old art professor at SUNY Buffalo who looks more like a high school A/V club member, with long, brown hair tucked behind his ear and a wide, toothy smile, says he explained that his own art work specializes in "bioart," an ultramodern blend of science, technology and art whose medium is living matter, such as cells. He and his wife, also an artist, used the lab equipment for their work, including...
...errors in post-9/11 America. Agents from a rainbow spectrum of agencies occupied Kurtz's home for several days, blocking off his street and setting up a biohazard shower to hose down investigators leaving the residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope is alive so that...
...confirms much of Kurtz's account, but stresses that the situation was far from clear-cut when agents arrived on the scene. "He had a working microbiology lab in his home. He did not have an art exhibit in his home. We also had a dead body," says Maureen Dempsey, spokesperson for the Buffalo field office of the FBI. "We didn't know what was in there. That's why we had to cordon off the house." The bacteria that Kurtz had in his house had been used in the past to simulate dangerous bacteria for research purposes - which...
...future in the treatment of Lascaux." If those efforts aren't sufficient, Léauté-Beasley says, the committee "retains the real option of inscribing Lascaux on the List of World Heritage in Danger 2009." The hope is that conditions of the caves' 17,000-year-old art will improve to the point where the seriousness of that threat won't come to the test...