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...parade ground. There is even the look of an inflated Greek temple, 20 times life size. Above all, the Center has an absolute lack of plasticity in space and detail. The halls and theaters are simply boxes-large boxes, to be sure, but they could hardly be more inert. The grand foyer, with its six-story mirrors, marble, chandeliers and inevitable red carpet, strives to be timeless but achieves only the crushing placelessness of an international air terminal. At the same time, Stone's attempted monumentality is often undone-even on its own terms-by a sense of kitsch...
...idea of making blueprints and farming out the work to factories (adopted by some of Di Suvero's contemporaries, among them Donald Judd) would do violence to the spirit of his sculpture. Delegated work can be done with sculpture whose look can be predicted-symmetrical or elementary or inert forms. With Di Suvero, everything hinges on the fine intuitive balance and adjustment of the heavy girders, the turnbuckles and cables. His style is as intimate as watercolor, despite its scale. What counts is the tuning of parts. It is "relational" sculpture, and it pits itself against the tendency among...
Thus his wooden pieces eight years ago, like Untitled, 1963 (see color page), were abstract, which was nothing new-but their kind of abstraction was. It was peculiarly inert and casual looking. This, it became clear, was because Judd has no interest in "composition"-the play between major and minor elements in a work of art, tuned into equilibrium. This elimination of hierarchies had never been tried in sculpture before, though it was very much a feature of advanced New York painting in the early '60s-the striped patterns of early Stella, the symmetrical chevrons of Noland...
...Spain, though Esso strictly bans any ocean discharges except in dire emergencies. Empty, the ship is as potentially explosive as nitroglycerin, with a rich mixture of oxygen and oil fumes in its massive tanks. To prevent inadvertent explosions, a Japanese company has designed an automatic system that forces inert, nonflammable gas into emptying tanks, thus displacing oil fumes. But such devices are not yet in general...
...precaution against such an electrical buildup, some tankers now carry inert gases, like nitrogen, in their empty tanks, but that is an expensive technique. As an alternative. Pierce suggests using chemicals that would prevent the buildup of a dangerous charge, and monitoring the tanks with electrical sensors. Some action is clearly necessary. There are about 4,000 tankers at sea, and shippers are ordering construction of even larger ones to increase their profits. The bigger the tanker, the greater the potential for explosion-an unfortunate example of more bang for the buck...