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That is no joke. The collapse of the ruble has triggered an urgent debate over how to stabilize the currency. Without sound money, experts say, the drive to bring capitalism to the former Soviet republics could come to a halt. "For people to have a currency that is valueless gives...
Some Western experts urge Russia to scrap the ruble altogether in favor of a new currency. Johns Hopkins' Hanke calls for creation of a "currency board," such as those used in Hong Kong and Singapore, that would circulate new cash and coins backed by dollars or other hard currency. The...
Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Rudenstine--Through Aug. 9. Sackler Musuem. Tour given Friday Feb. 28 by Jim Cuno, director of Harvard Museums. Meet in museum lobby.
De Kooning, a generation older than Johns, seems less obsessed with irony in his waning years than he is with gesture and scale. These untitled works produces at his studio in the Hamptons are being shown for the first time at the Sackler. They reveal an increase in serenity and...
It is in these later works that de Kooning, Serra and Johns make painterliness secondary and create room for reflection. The sober confidence in these works attests to their willingness to leave behind the formulas that brought them success and attempt new and varied effects. They continually change and transcend...