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...celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding, the Brooklyn Museum has assembled a rare collection of objects from Amenhotep's reign, largely through the efforts of Curator Bernard V. Bothmer, who has spent three years negotiating the loans. Some 200 in all, the objects range from beautifully incised bas-reliefs of domestic life to sensitively molded small heads of princesses, high officials and the merely young...
...drug arrests in the state are still for pot. Florida Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart declares: "The thing that bothers me most is that authorities say they have yet to find someone on the hard stuff who didn't start with marijuana." Says Albert Le Bas, chief of the civil division of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office: "Our concern is that there is still conflicting medical testimony on how harmful it is to the body...
Nowhere is the American penchant for pilfering more in evidence than in Boston Common. Ever since 1897, the north side of the common has been dominated by a massive monument with a bronze bas-relief of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white leader of the first black U.S. regiment, who was killed leading a Civil War assault on South Carolina's Fort Wagner. The only problem with the statue was Shaw's bronze sword. It kept disappearing. First the original, then another and another, until the colonel had been rearmed no less than a dozen times. Finally...
...from the coast of North Africa to India. Apart from the fact that he was renowned as a lawgiver and statesman, most details of his life and that of the Achaemenian dynasty -which ruled ancient Persia for two centuries-are shrouded in the mists of the past. The great bas-reliefs that Darius ordered carved into a cliffside in Behistun, some 150 miles to the north of Susa, for instance, tell of his accession to the throne and his triumph over enemies. But they are too fragmentary to offer a full historical record...
Arabesques. Nowhere in Matisse's work is this heroic quality more striking than in a set of four bas-reliefs of a woman's back, which he worked on intermittently from 1909 to 1930. They give an extraordinary vision of his working methods in all their tenacity. The back, in its successive versions, turns from a deeply in dented landscape of bulges and arabesques, with gullies of shoulder blade and buttocks radiating from the central valley of the spine, into an image with the vast immobility of a mountain - abstracted to a point where its human quality...