Word: colorism
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Sculpture: The Adventure of Modern Sculpture in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Rizzoli; 308 pages; $85) is a wide-ranging study of this art form. In addition to more than 550 photographs (nearly half in color), essays by art historians chart the changes in sculpture from traditional men on horseback to imposing abstractions that are set against desolate landscapes or take up acres and even miles. Examples include Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah and Christo's 24½-mile-long nylon Running Fence in California. These and more familiar pieces by Auguste Rodin...
...challenge of illumination has often led to amusing and beautiful solutions, as can be seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle...
...Publicolor With schools in frequent need of repair and revitalization, Publicolor encourages volunteers to help spruce them up. It's an innovative program that serves to transform public spaces in neglected schools and neighborhood facilities through the powers of vibrant color and organized collaboration. Publicolor volunteers work in teams to paint classrooms, cafeterias and more. Visit www.publicolor.org for more information on getting involved...
...edited only for profanity and obscenity—directly on the online edition. Such a reformulation accomplishes two important ends: first, publishing comments makes the CUE more interesting and informative. Too often CUE reviews of completely dissimilar classes offering completely differing experiences read the same. CUE reports lack color; publishing the text of comments, anonymously and with the option to opt-out, will make the CUE the riveting read that course evaluations should be. Second, a response rate as low as this year’s takes an incomplete view of courses and hurts the quality of the CUE guide...
...million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the atlas is the first Web-based, public-access database of all 20,000 or so genes expressed in the mouse brain. Want to know where in the brain a specific gene is active? The ABA has it, in vivid three-dimensional color. Curious about what types of brain cells are actively expressing a particular gene? The atlas provides molecular-level data that tell you. "Even though it's a mouse project, it really is a wonderful resource for human genetics and human biology and for understanding the brain in both the healthy...