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Traditionally, cultures become more fascinated with the past as a millennium approaches, so this rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...Denver Archdiocese bid on a terra-cotta relief of the Annunciation. It was unsuccessful, but picked up two early oils for the seminary library. "Everybody can walk away with something. If you keep your wits and don't get carried away, you can do well," observed Robert Delaney, an antiques dealer, on his way to pick up a bronze sculpture by Denver artist Edgar Britton, for which he successfully bid $1,700. Art dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That...
While Conley did display the breadth of his historical and archaeological knowledge with his allusion to the terra cotta army buried with a third century B.C.E. emperor near Xi'an, China, the imagery he used in his portrayal ironically combined this monument of ancient civilization with a stero typical Charlie Chan-type caricature of the Chinese face...
...stately brick and terra-cotta building with vaulting four-story window arches represents a quintessentially New York City phenomenon: the architectural landmark that nobody notices. Built in the 1890s on a fashionable corner in Greenwich Village, it was designed for a long-forgotten retailer who dreamed of giving Macy's a run for its money. Passersby would probably not be surprised if the structure disappeared overnight to be replaced with a modern apartment tower. They would never guess that this venerable edifice is the most energy-efficient building in Manhattan...
Given the high finish of his marbles, the roughness of his terra-cotta models comes as a surprise. In the first heat of exploring a motif, Canova worked as quickly and directly, almost, as Rodin, squeezing and knifing the clay to slab out the shapes. On occasions, he could compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...