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...Jeff, I loved the Puppy." From a few words, John Kaldor's contemporary art dreams can loom large. Such was the case, in 1995, when the Australian art patron invited American Jeff Koons to rebuild his 12-m-high topiary terrier in the forecourt of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. At a time when cutting-edge art was still frowned on in Australia, Puppy-which required audiences to do little more than stop and smile and smell the flowers-was a palatable panacea. Later purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Koons' Postmodernist sculpture would become a global...
...they get sidetracked from the truth. He learned that about 80% of medical mistakes are the result of predictable mental traps, or cognitive errors, that bedevil all human beings. Only 20% are due to technical mishaps--mixed-up test results or hard-to-decipher handwriting--that typically loom larger in patients' minds and on television shows...
...bare apartment. The two towers of World Trade Center suggestively pierce the horizon within the frame of the window. “Nude in Soho” is similarly configured, though this time the sunbather is on the ledge of a balcony. From Soho, the two towers loom much larger, occupying much of the right half of the photograph, and are accompanied by a suggestively shaped silo on the left. Unlike their marine counterparts, both these women look weary; the phallic and inhospitable city thrust upon their delicate complexions. Clergue’s recent...
...have gone beyond expectations; no one expected use to be so high." Bayer says she has visited villages in the north of Afghanistan where the entire population is addicted to opium. Mothers in carpet weaving districts take opium to ease muscle aches earned from spending long days at the loom, and give it to their children to keep them quiet. Says Bayer: "There is no education, no awareness of the harm that opium causes. People here have been traumatized. If they can find something to relieve the pain, they will take...
...peculiar case of a woman who contacted McGaugh because she remembers absolutely everything. The stress-hormone model does not appear to apply in her case. Says McGaugh: "At one point I asked if she knew who Bing Crosby was. She's 40, so Bing Crosby doesn't loom large in her life, but she knew he died on a golf course in Spain, and she gave me the date, just like that." Imaging researchers are working to determine whether the woman's brain is structurally different from everyone else...