Word: collectables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nightcap, the scoreboard at Meiklejohn Stadium showed the improbable line of three runs and zero hits for the Crimson, with Harvard and Penn tied at 3-3. But Quakers right fielder Jarron Smith clubbed a three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, and Harvard did not collect its first base hit until the eighth, as the hosts went on to seize the late game by a 6-4 final.Smith connected on a belt-high curveball from junior Shawn Haviland, who allowed six earned runs on eight hits and four walks in 6 2/3 innings, or three more than...
...cultural shift and a taste shift," says Zemaitis. "People in their 30s and 40s who are doing most of the buying don't want to collect the way their parents did, collecting every piece of Rookwood pottery and putting it in a display case. This generation puts less emphasis on the decorative object and more emphasis on furniture. I call it the Wallpaper generation...
...boomer generation is also bidding. Meyers credits the trend for what he calls "starchitecture" for creating the rush on contemporary design. "If you've seriously been collecting art for 25 years and you've got all the best pieces of the artists you collect, and you're ready to retire, then you're going to build your own personal museum," he explains. And in that "museum," the object you sit on has to be as important as the art on the walls. Meyers estimates that 90% of the people collecting design are contemporary-art collectors. "The art world is eating...
...loved the idea that they were people working in today's vocabulary. I wanted to collect things of my time--which was a necessity anyway because everything else was astronomically expensive," Krakoff says. More recently he has been buying pieces by Newson, Arad and Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne--for whom he organized a show and published a book last year...
Until we can dial down the carbon, a more immediate strategy might be to find somewhere to put it all--to sequester it underground. In the same way we store radioactive waste from nuclear reactors, so too could we collect the gaseous CO2 from power plants...