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...Marsden Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer...
Within a few days, Green and Marsden had calculated that Hale-Bopp was incredibly far away and must therefore be unusually bright. At this rate, they determined, it should be absolutely brilliant when it finally arrived in March 1997. Should was the operative word, however. Comets are not especially well-behaved creatures. All too often they show great promise early in their career but turn out--like the infamous Kohoutek in the early 1970s--to be celestial duds...
...quaintly named Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory. Maybe this would turn out to be a known object. It didn't. "Now I felt I had a pretty live suspect," he says. He fired off an E-mail message to Daniel Green and Brian Marsden, who run the Bureau for the International Astronomical Union, reporting a possible new comet. A few hours later he looked again, and the object had moved. It was a comet for sure...
...social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper doll cut from...
...Marsden's report includes discussions of pension contributions and long-term health care benefits. Discussion of a report on retirement is docketed for next month's Faculty meeting...