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...advent of iron is the subject of an extremely beautiful show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, curated by Carmen Gimenez, with excellent catalog essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. "Picasso and the Age of Iron" involves three European artists -- Alberto Giacometti, Gonzalez and Picasso -- and two American ones, David Smith and Alexander Calder. Its time span is from 1928, when Picasso made an open frame of iron rods with a pinhead and two tiny startled hands and called it Figure, to Smith's maturity in the early 1960s. But its core...
...corporate plazas of America are cluttered with large and often otiose welded objects. Now and again a real masterpiece is produced in iron -- most recently, the astonishing work by Richard Serra, Intersection II, that was on view until last week at the Gagosian Gallery in SoHo. But the Guggenheim's exhibition rewinds the tape of art history to the time when iron was not an expected material, and makes the rusty stuff seem marvelous again...
Five researchers connected with Harvard have won Guggenheim Fellowship grants for a varsity of projects including an examination of the function of regulatory genes and a book on the assimilation of West Indian immigrants in New York City...
Kaminer won a fellowship to research capital punishment, politics and culture, and Lockman will write on popular culture and social change in Cairo between 1882 and 1919, according to a Guggenheim Foundation press release...
...think that it's good news for the country," said Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore. "We're proud of the fact that they've been selected and are going...