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This is why earlier this month Serra, 67, spent weeks in one of the second-floor galleries of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. He was there to supervise the siting of Sequence and two other massive new pieces. Along with two more that were already resting hugely in the museum's sculpture garden, those works will be the crescendo of the Serra retrospective, organized by curators Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, that opens at MOMA on June 3. But first it was necessary to get them indoors, which required two trailer trucks, a vast sliding...
...talking origami here. In the late 1990s, when MOMA was in the first stages of a major expansion, the late Kirk Varnedoe, then chief curator of painting and sculpture, made a point of consulting with architect Yoshio Taniguchi to make sure that the museum's new second floor would be strong enough to hold the tonnage of the typical late Serra work. He did that because by those years it was obvious that the time was coming soon for a very big Serra show. And that was because Serra, whose work had once seemed as severe and forbidding...
...joke. He is most effective when he makes fun of the superficial glamour of Los Angeles and the tangled hypocrisy of D.C. In a recent appearance, he supplied a cheeky anecdote about a fellow Senator coming up to him after he gave his first speech on the Senate floor, which was on the topic of "having Congress abide by the laws that everybody else had to abide by - a novel concept at the time." His colleague, however, merely wanted to ask him about the submarine from the film The Hunt for Red October...
Counter occupies a post of tremendous prominence and power at this University. His office is on the first floor of University Hall, next to the Dean of Harvard College’s. The Harvard Foundation provoked a student organization diaspora last year with the expansion of its offices in the basement of Thayer Hall. Counter ostensibly speaks for diversity on a campus where more than half of the students are not white. His inflammatory language constitutes a failure to live up to the expectations incumbent in his position...
...left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans of beer. And he says he saw an American guard having regular sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner on the floor above and across the hall from his cell...