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...Collector's Cabinet, Part 2. Los Angeles's LACMA has Hearst the Collector on view. Immortalized in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was said to have provided 25% of the art on the market in the 1920s and '30s. The LACMA collection includes 17th-century armor and tapestries, as well as Hearst's sculpture and paintings. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...
...Collector's Cabinet. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell to its director, who has worked at the museum for 45 years, the last 30 as its head, with the exhibit The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions - a hodgepodge of 300 works of art, from a wooden Egyptian statue to Jasper John's White Flag, collected under de Montebello. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street, New York City...
...only mark history; sometimes we are part of it. With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, people across America and around the world scooped up copies of our commemorative election issue to observe the occasion. It has already become a collector's item. When I was walking home from the office a few nights after the election, I passed a newsstand in New York City that had just one copy of the issue left for sale--marked up to $25. While I'm against such price gouging, it was a sign...
...gears. Still, reality is rarely a limit to a marketer's imagination. In succeeding years, futuristic-seeming holograms became a gimmick. Sports Illustrated put a 3-D Michael Jordan on its cover in 1991, and the U.S. Postal Service issued its first hologram stamp in 1989. Both quickly became collector's items. Homemade holograms are difficult to create, requiring lasers and holographic plates or film, which has made them effective counterfeit deterrents used on credit cards and identification documents. But movie-quality, 3-D holography - think Princess Leia in Star Wars - is a whole other beast. For one thing, researchers...
...will daily interactions between whites and nonwhites change? Will there be less discriminatory treatment in jobs, health care, education, or the criminal justice system? Conversely, will people of color see racial consciousness as more optional and less necessary, so that their identity as an economic conservative or stamp collector can come to the fore...