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...rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose a bold, abstract pattern on a powerfully articulated form. From the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of the 2nd century Han prince Liu Sheng, comes the figure of a kneeling girl. The lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through the girl's sleeve and on into the hollow body, so no soot would dirty the room. The girl's face is a paradigm of portraiture...
...most mysterious piece in the show (and the least reproducible) is Victory Over Sin, 1980, a room designed by West Coast Artist David Hammons. What one sees, by the light of a yellowish ceiling lamp, is three gray walls covered with a repeated motif of two kidney shapes, each with a pair of fuzzy black dots, which, on close inspection, turn out to be human hair. The floor has sprouted barely visible wands and reeds, no higher than low marsh grass, each painted in bands of primary color and adorned with more of the same hair. A burial site...
...name only a smattering. Gypsy Rose Lee's mink G string sold for $1,500 to a London banker. In the mid-1920s, the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany dumped carloads of the then unpopular art nouveau glassware that bears his stamp; a well-preserved rare Tiffany lamp today can be worth up to $150,000. By one estimate, the U.S. boasts 22 million collectors of one kind or another, mostly another. There are no junk stores any more, only antique shoppes...
...historical myopia. How wonderful, we are told, that all things rise in price, as though in some universal resurrection and canonization of the dead. Twenty years ago, you might not have got $1,000 for the Pre-Raphaelite painting that now fetches $100,000. The $30,000 Tiffany lamp was not worth $3,000, and so on. One is left with the impression-indeed it is cultivated assiduously by the largest gaggle of public relations people ever to batten on the flank of culture-that art prices can only go up; the market has transcended its old uncertainty, whether...
...energy than the buildings they replaced. Now owners are scrambling to make skyscrapers more energy efficient with such devices as heat pumps, reflective film on windows and costly refinements of lighting systems. (At present, a late-staying worker at Manhattan's World Trade Center who does not have a lamp at his desk must switch on a quarter-acre of lights.) More important, the Federal Government's edict lowering thermostats to 65° F has left windowless inner rooms relatively tolerable, while prized corner offices, symbolic of executive success, sometimes are Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands...